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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And their clucky moves might just shut down the internet with the “Chicken Noodle Soup” challenge.
From Los Angeles Times
At a Red Cross Evacuation Center in Pahoa, 72-year-old Linda Dee Souza looked after her African Gray parrots, Clucky and Mary Magdalene, with whom she fled her home in the coastal community of Kalapana because of dangerous sulphur dioxide fumes.
From Reuters
Riding aboard the bus were two chickens, Clucky and Chucky.
From Washington Post
People think it's an appalling display of wealth – a very British form of clucky disapproval, disguised in some quarters as environmental concern.
From The Guardian
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
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