clouk

Yola

Alternative forms

• klouk

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish cloch (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klʊk/

Noun

clouk

1. (figurative) simpleton, silly person

   Synonyms: gom, stouck, pomeale, dhonal

   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 108:

     Aar was a clouk.

     There was a simple man,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30