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clucking

  • present participle of cluck.

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I remember the clucking when Mr. Cook took over as CEO in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine.

From Washington Post Apr. 17, 2023

Towns in France and Belgium, for example, give out chickens to serve as walking, clucking garbage disposals.

From Slate Apr. 5, 2023

Residents in Glasgow housing estates could soon be hearing the sound of mooing cows and clucking hens outside their homes.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2022

The chickens were clucking and flying up into the kola nut tree, where they would sleep.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie