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clake

clake is the alternative form of claik.

Meaning of claik

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.

See all 4 meanings of claik

Forms of clake

pluralclakes

Questions about clake

What is clake the alternative form of?
Clake is the alternative form of claik.

Words near clake in the dictionary

  1. Claisen flask
  2. Claisen flasks
  3. Claisen rearrangement
  4. Claisen rearrangements
  5. CLAIT
  6. clake
  7. clakes
  8. Clallam
  9. Clallam County
  10. Clallams
  11. clam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clake (page history and authors); claik (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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