cluck
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
had been clucking
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past perfect progressiveof cluck.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Food writers had been clucking about it ever since founder Danny Meyer filed a trademark application last May.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2016
Here Mr Bickersdyke, who had been clucking throughout this speech, essayed to speak; but Psmith hurried on.
From Psmith in the City by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
