claik

English

Etymology

From Scots claik, from Old Norse klaka.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kleɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

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.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 79:

     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.

3. The barnacle goose.

Anagrams

• laick

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse klaka, from or related to Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to cluck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klek/

Noun

claik (plural claiks)

1. honk (of a goose)
2. gossip
3. barnacle goose