单词 | claik |
释义 | claikn. Scottish. 1. The cry or call of a goose or other fowl. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The fox follouit the fed geise & gart them cry claik. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Claik, the noise made by a hen. 2. Chatter, gossip, clatter. (Cf. cackle n. 3a.) ΚΠ 1790 Morrison Poems 187 (Jam.) The country's fu' Wi' lees and claiks, about young Ket and you. 3. a. (Also 1500s–1800s clake, 1600s clayk, 1700s cleck, 1800s clack.) The Barnacle-goose, Anas leucopsis, probably so named from its call. ΚΠ a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 212 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Correker of kirkmen was clepit ye claik. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. xi. 14/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I These Claikes (or Barnacles as I call them). 1694 J. Narborough Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) Introd. 14 They discovered the Bernacle Goose or Clakis sitting upon their Eggs, under the 80th Deg. north Lat. b. More fully claik-goose. ΚΠ c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Ciiij Of the nature of claik geis..Sum men beleuis that thir clakis growis on treis be the nebbis. 16.. Monipennie in Macleod Hist. Dumbarton (1878) ii. 49 Clayk geese black of colour. 1706 J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems i. 48 (Jam.) When the Cleck Geese leave off to clatter. 1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 61 There are many Sorts of Wild-fowl; namely the Dunter Goose, Clark [? = Claik], Goose, Solan Goose, etc. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 153 Like sea-maws and clack-geese before a storm. ?1841 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 255 The bernicle or clake goose. 4. The barnacle n.2 2 shell. ΚΠ 1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 357. 1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 62 Pieces of Wreck..grown over with the Shells of a Fish called Cleck Geese, which I take to be the Conchæ anatiferæ. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). claikv. Scottish. intransitive. To cry as geese or other fowls; to chatter, talk so as to bore people. ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. Prol. 109 The wild geiss claking eik by nyghtis tyde. 1838 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side (1843) 77 That daidlin claikin creature of a lawyer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.a1525v.a1522 |
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