cluck
1- 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.
- to call or utter by clucking.
- the sound uttered by a hen when brooding, or in calling her chicks.
- any clucking sound.
Origin of cluck
1cluck
2- a dull-witted, stupid person; blockhead; dolt.
Origin of cluck
2Examples from the Web for cluck
Contemporary Examples of cluck
Secondly, readers should not cluck their satisfaction so blithely over economic sanctions.
It used to be cute, and adults would shake their heads and cluck their tongues.
Historical Examples of cluck
Whenever they get hungry, the mamma hen will come to the door of the house and cluck.
While feeding it utters a low-sounding cluck, cluck, at short intervals.
The Western WorldW.H.G. Kingston
I know all the birds say when they twitter and chirp, caw and coo, gobble and cluck.
Europa's Fairy BookJoseph Jacobs
She can cluck, cluck them close up to her, and often she catches them.
HoodieMary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
There they sit for a short time, when their leader gives a loud “cluck.”
With Axe and RifleW.H.G. Kingston
cluck
- the low clicking sound made by a hen or any similar sound
- (intr) (of a hen) to make a clicking sound
- (tr) to call or express (a feeling) by making a similar sound
Word Origin for cluck
Word Origin and History for cluck
Old English cloccian originally echoic. Cf. Turkish culuk, one of the words for "turkey;" Greek klozein, Latin glocire, German glucken. Related: Clucked; clucking.
1703, "sound made by a hen," from cluck (v.). Slang meaning "stupid person" (turkeys are famously foolish) is from 1927.