cluck
See also: Cluck
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) Rhymes: -ʌk
Noun
cluck (plural clucks)
- The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
- Any sound similar to this.
- A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Translations
sound made by hen
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any similar sound
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tongue click to urge on a horse
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Verb
cluck (third-person singular simple present clucks, present participle clucking, simple past and past participle clucked)
- (intransitive) To make such a sound.
- (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
- My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
- To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
- Shakespeare
- She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, / Has clucked three to the wars.
- Shakespeare
- (British, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
Translations
to produce cluck sound
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See also
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