Home › Words › C › cleckcleckcleck means to hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).EtymologyFrom Scots cleck, from Old Norse klekja.verbTo hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.clecking 71% match — A brood. vs cleck →cluck 61% match — The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks. vs cleck →clicket 60% match — To be in oestrus; to copulate. vs cleck →cockleert 60% match — Cockcrow; dawn; daybreak. vs cleck →cockling 60% match — A young, small, or immature cock. vs cleck →chick 59% match — A young bird. vs cleck →keak 59% match — To cackle or laugh. vs cleck →hatchable 59% match — able, or liable, to hatch vs cleck →