name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
cleek
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/kliːk/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -iːk
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homophone: clique
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CMU ARPABET: K L IY1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A large hook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 3
A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Meaning 4
To strike with the club called a cleek.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, transitive
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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History
Etymology
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Glück. * As an English surname, spelling variant of Clerke, Clerk, and from Old English cleaca (“stepping stone”), from Proto-Celtic *klukā (“stone”).
Borrowed from Scots cleek.