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cluck
1[ kluhk ]
verb (used without object)
- to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
- to make a similar sound; express concern, approval, etc., by such a sound.
verb (used with object)
- to call or utter by clucking.
noun
- the sound uttered by a hen when brooding, or in calling her chicks.
- any clucking sound.
cluck
2[ kluhk ]
noun
- a dull-witted, stupid person; blockhead; dolt.
cluck
/ klʌk /
noun
- the low clicking sound made by a hen or any similar sound
verb
- intr (of a hen) to make a clicking sound
- tr to call or express (a feeling) by making a similar sound
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cluck1
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.
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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