Scottish dialect: to scratch, claw, or scrape; to make scratching sounds.
From Old English 'clacian' (to click, clack) or related to 'claw'. Scottish variation with onomatopoetic origins.
Scottish English preserves sounds and words that disappeared from other English dialects—'claik' is pure onomatopoeia, the word actually sounds like scratching.
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