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clecking

clecking is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

clecking (plural cleckings)

  1. (Scotland) A brood.

Forms of clecking

pluralcleckings

Questions about clecking

What does clecking mean?
Clecking means a brood.
What is clecking the present participle and gerund of?
Clecking is the present participle and gerund of cleck.
What part of speech is clecking?
Clecking is a noun.
What is the plural of clecking?
The plural of clecking is cleckings.

Words near clecking in the dictionary

  1. clechée
  2. cleck
  3. clecked
  4. Cleckheaton
  5. Cleckhuddersfax
  6. clecking
  7. cleckings
  8. Cleckler
  9. Clecklers
  10. Cleckley
  11. Cleckleyan

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