cluck
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
is clucking
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present progressiveof cluck (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Congress, instead, is clucking about a memorandum written in May by two senior Pentagon officials for Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
From US News ● Sep. 7, 2016
A flamingo sounds as if she is clucking by emphasizing the “K” sound when she sings.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2013
While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes; an old hen is clucking with motherly satisfaction over two long-legged chickens that are racing for a fat green caterpillar.
From Nearly Bedtime Five Short Stories for the Little Ones by H. Mary Wilson
