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cleek¹

  • /kliːk/

Sounds like clique · Rhymes with -iːk

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Scots cleek.

noun cleeks

  1. Scotland A large hook.
  2. dated 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. He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.

verb cleeks · cleeking · cleeked

  1. dated, transitive To strike with the club called a cleek. […] ready to acclaim his exploits, and listen to volumes about every hole, and the marvellous way in which he cleeked his tee off the bogie.

Cleek²

Where it comes from

* 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”).

proper noun Cleeks

  1. A surname.

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"cleek." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cleek. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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cleek. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cleek

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"cleek." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cleek.

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@misc{cleek_2026,
  title = {cleek},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cleek},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}