cluck
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
clucked
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past participleof cluck.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cluck.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
cluckverb (used without object)to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
Example Sentences
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“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023
The chief clucked his tongue some more, lapsing into silence.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022
“I gestured and clucked like a chicken,” she says — a request for spices used to prepare chicken.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022
They exchanged a dark look, and Madam Pomfrey clucked disapprovingly.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
