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claik

UK/kleɪk/

claik verb: to honk or cry like a goose.

Verb

claik (third-person singular simple present claiks, present participle claiking, simple past and past participle claiked)

  1. (Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.

Noun

claik (plural claiks)

  1. (Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.
  2. (Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
    • you might hide with your lass on the top of Ben Nevis and have your bit pleasure there, but ten to one when you got up to go home there'd be Mistress Munro or some claik of her kidney, near sniggering herself daft with delight at your shame.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 79
  3. The barnacle goose.

Forms of claik

Verb
third-person singular presentclaiks
present participleclaiking
past participleclaiked
pastclaiked
Noun
pluralclaiks

Origin of claik

From Scots claik, from Old Norse klaka.

Words that rhyme with claik

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Questions about claik

What does claik mean?
Claik means to honk or cry like a goose.
What part of speech is claik?
Claik can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce claik?
Claik is pronounced /kleɪk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of claik?
The past tense of claik is claiked.

Words near claik in the dictionary

  1. Claiborne County
  2. Claiborne Parish
  3. Claibornes
  4. Claibourne
  5. Claife
  6. claik
  7. claiking
  8. claiks
  9. claim
  10. claim adjuster
  11. claim adjusters

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