claik

To honk or cry like a goose.

The cry of a goose, or other bird.

Gossip; a gossip.

you might hide with your lass on the top of Ben Nevis and have your bit pleasure there, but ten to one when you got up to go home there'd be Mistress Munro or some claik of her kidney, near sniggering herself daft with delight at your shame.

The barnacle goose.