clucky
Britishadjective
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wishing to have a baby
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excessively protective towards her children
Example Sentences
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Joe made a chirping, clucky noise, the poult looked him square in the eye, "and something very unambiguous happened in that moment".
From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2011
Hollywood on-off-on-again couple Leonardo DiCaprio and Gisele B�ndchen are getting all clucky and are trying for a baby, an Australian weekly magazine says.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Aunt Alice’s as you’d expect, all clucky ’cause of...y’know.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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