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clecks

clecks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is clecks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Clecks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cleck.

Words near clecks in the dictionary

  1. Cleckler
  2. Clecklers
  3. Cleckley
  4. Cleckleyan
  5. Cleckleys
  6. clecks
  7. CLECs
  8. Cleddau
  9. cledge
  10. cledgy
  11. cledonism

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