Cluck

Quick meaning: Cluck is a noun meaning The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

Meaning

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

More Meanings

1. Any sound similar to this.
2. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
3. (Texas) A setting hen.
4. (intransitive) To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
5. (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
6. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
7. (British, drug slang) To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

Example Sentences

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.

"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."

Word Forms

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• clutch
• clucking
• clucked

Synonyms for cluck

Depending on context, synonyms include chuck, clack, click.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clack, click, cackle, chirrup, kackle, chuck.

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