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clucky

British  
/ ˈklʌkɪ /

adjective

  1. wishing to have a baby

  2. excessively protective towards her children

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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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