Sc. [prob.:—ON. klaka, to chatter, twitter, and thus identical with certain senses of CLACK v.] intr. To cry as geese or other fowls; to chatter, talk so as to bore people.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VII. Prol. 109. The wyld geis claking eik by nychtis tyde.

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1838.  Bethune, Sc. Fireside Stor. (1843), 77. That daidlin claikin creature of a lawyer.

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