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clecked

clecked is the simple past and past participle of cleck.

Meaning of cleck

Verb

cleck (third-person singular simple present clecks, present participle clecking, simple past and past participle clecked)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
    • Poor he might be, but the creature wasn't yet clecked that might put on its airs with him, John Guthrie.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46

Questions about clecked

What is clecked the simple past and past participle of?
Clecked is the simple past and past participle of cleck.

Words near clecked in the dictionary

  1. CLEC
  2. clechy
  3. cleché
  4. clechée
  5. cleck
  6. clecked
  7. Cleckheaton
  8. Cleckhuddersfax
  9. clecking
  10. cleckings
  11. Cleckler

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