cluck
See also: Cluck
English
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
- Rhymes: -ʌk
Noun
cluck (plural clucks)
Translations
sound made by hen
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
- (Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
Translations
to produce cluck sound
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See also
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