different between cleck vs sleck

English

Etymology

From Scots cleck, from Old Norse klekja.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

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

1. (chiefly Scotland, transitive) To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 46:

     Poor he might be, but the creature wasn't yet clecked that might put on its airs with him, John Guthrie.

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse klekja.

Verb

cleck (third-person singular present clecks, present participle cleckin, past cleckit, past participle cleckit)

1. to hatch, to give birth to

English

Alternative forms

• slekk

Etymology

From Middle English slecken, slekken, from Old Norse slekkja, sløkkva (“to extinguish, quench, slake”), from Proto-Germanic *slakjan?, *slakwijan? (“to slake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)l?g- (“weak, faint, limp”). Cognate with Old English sle??an, slæ??an (“to make slack or slow, delay”).

Verb

sleck (third-person singular simple present slecks, present participle slecking, simple past and past participle slecked)

1. Alternative form of slake

   to sleck lime

2. (dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
3. (Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.

Related terms

• slecken
• sletch