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/klʌk/ · noun
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks..
"I came across him once," he continued, "when he was playing down on the main road to Skaug; there he sat in the middle of the road with a lot of hens around him, I counted seven, and there were more round about in the wood, for I heard them clucking and calling behind every bush."
My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.
Use cluck when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cluck means The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks..
Common synonyms include chuck, clack, click.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"I came across him once," he continued, "when he was playing down on the main road to Skaug; there he sat in the middle of the road with a lot of hens around him, I counted seven, and there were more round about in the wood, for I heard them clucking and calling behind every bush."
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