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had been clucking
  • past perfect progressive of cluck.

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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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)