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cluck

1

[ kluhk ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
  2. to make a similar sound; express concern, approval, etc., by such a sound.


verb (used with object)

  1. to call or utter by clucking.

noun

  1. the sound uttered by a hen when brooding, or in calling her chicks.
  2. any clucking sound.

cluck

2

[ kluhk ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. a dull-witted, stupid person; blockhead; dolt.

cluck

/ klʌk /

noun

  1. the low clicking sound made by a hen or any similar sound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. intr (of a hen) to make a clicking sound
  2. tr to call or express (a feeling) by making a similar sound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cluck1

1475–85; variant of clock 1 (now dial. and Scot), Middle English clokken, Old English cloccian to cluck; cognate with Dutch klokken

Origin of cluck2

1900–05, Americanism; special use of cluck 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cluck1

C17: of imitative origin
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Example Sentences

With the pandemic raging, an encounter that days earlier might have ended in a friendly apology or a cluck of sympathy quickly turned ugly.

From Time

Secondly, readers should not cluck their satisfaction so blithely over economic sanctions.

The Moo Cluck Moo empire consists of two small outlets with about two-dozen employees.

In September, Moo Cluck Moo raised wages to the unthinkable level of $15 an hour.

By this time next year, Moo Cluck Moo hopes to have about a half-dozen units in the Detroit area.

Moo Cluck Moo, which has been in business for less than a year, has a single restaurant.

Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.

Ten minutes afterwards we heard the newly wakened hens begin to cluck.

Mother Bantam would cluck and run back and forth in the coop and call to them, she was so afraid something would happen.

Animals followed, and the Givers of life said "Speak our names," but the animals could only cluck and croak.

Pretty soon he heard something going "cluck-cluck" in the bushes, and he knew that it was the mamma hen.

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