Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.
- noun A sound similar to this.
- noun Informal A stupid or foolish person.
- intransitive verb To utter the characteristic sound of a hen.
- intransitive verb To make a sound similar to that of a hen, as in coaxing a horse.
- intransitive verb To call by making the characteristic sound of a hen or a similar sound.
- intransitive verb To express by clucking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To utter the call or cry of a brooding hen or a hen with young chicks.
- To call or incite by clucking, as a hen her chicks.
- noun A sound uttered by a hen when broody, or in calling her chicks.
- noun Same as
click , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
- transitive verb To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
- noun The call of a hen to her chickens.
- noun A click. See 3d
Click , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
sound made by ahen , especially whenbrooding , orcalling herchicks . - noun Any sound similar to this.
- noun A kind of tongue
click used to urge on a horse. - verb To make such a sound.
- verb UK, drug slang to suffer
withdrawal fromheroin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
- noun the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The easiest way I do a cluck is press your tongue firmly in the center of the latex and say took along with a burst of air.
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The common cluck is presented with so much nonsense to sift through its no wonder that Atkins diets and similar ilk get more attention (and thus validity in the public eye) by popularizing one or two bad ideas and focusing on that.
Matthew Yglesias » Health Scares Reduce Smoking, But Not Obeisity 2009
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The easiest way I do a cluck is press your tongue firmly in the center of the latex and say took along with a burst of air.
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The common cluck is presented with so much nonsense to sift through its no wonder that Atkins diets and similar ilk get more attention (and thus validity in the public eye) by popularizing one or two bad ideas and focusing on that.
Matthew Yglesias » Health Scares Reduce Smoking, But Not Obeisity 2009
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"Those who don't like a rogue's progress, preferring to cluck from a distance over the skeevy habits of today's rich bachelors, should skip Sons of Hollywood," writes Virginia Heffernan.
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In French, cocotte (the feminine diminutive of coq) is originally a child's name for "hen" (coq...cocotte) (in English "cluck-cluck") and has a further two meanings: my sweetie ("ma cocotte") and "tart" (as in trollop or kept-woman).
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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In French, cocotte (the feminine diminutive of coq) is originally a child's name for "hen" (coq...cocotte) (in English "cluck-cluck") and has a further two meanings: my sweetie ("ma cocotte") and "tart" (as in trollop or kept-woman).
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Thus prepared, he takes his "call," and gives one solitary "cluck" - so exquisitely - that it chimes in with the running brook and the rustling leaf.
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She eats chicken (she really eats that drumstick -- and it's kind of beautiful), calls George a "cluck," and they booze it up.
Kim Morgan: Ugly Talents: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 2009
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I am too sensitive to make a list of all the insults I get, but they would go "cluck" or something so far, I think I've been called forms of chicken, dog, and sow!
Speaking of Everywhere you look there you are Lemon Hound 2009
tusseymountain commented on the word cluck
Is cluck the best word for the sound made when you move your tongue suddenly from the roof of your mouth to the floor of your mouth? The sound kids use to imitate horses. Seems like there's another word for that but my brain is stuck on cluck!
February 24, 2010
bilby commented on the word cluck
Try doing it faster.
February 24, 2010
yarb commented on the word cluck
I would say it was more of a clock than a cluck.
February 24, 2010