- present participle of cluck.
Example Sentences
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Saying "Calmez vous, ma cherie" Clucking like a chicken Shouting "Witch!"
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2013
Clucking sympathetically, Oliver Wendell Holmes struck a similar note.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The best of jokes loses its point if it is kept going so long as it seems to have been in this 'Lodge of the Clucking Hen,' if I may so style it.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
Clucking to and fro the insignificant little brown bird kept up his ceaseless chatter, and the girl looked up.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram
Clucking in an odd manner, he drove two of them out of the herd and started back toward a farmhouse which was not far distant.
From The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Burnham, Margaret