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Cluck definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLUCK, v.i. To make the noise, or utter the voice of the domestic hen, when sitting on eggs for hatching, and when conducting her chickens. This voice, with the change of the vowel, is precisely our word clack and clock, and is probably an onomatopy. [See Clack and Clock.]
CLUCK, v.t. To call chickens by a particular sound.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) [syn: cluck, clucking] v
1: make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck, click, clack]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: imitative Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to make a cluck 2. to make a clicking sound with the tongue 3. to express interest or concern <critics clucked over the new developments> transitive verb 1. to call with a cluck 2. to express with interest or concern II. noun Date: 1703 1. the characteristic sound made by a hen especially in calling her chicks 2. a stupid or naive person <a dumb cluck>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a guttural cry like that of a hen. 2 sl. a silly or foolish person (dumb cluck). --v.intr. emit a cluck or clucks. Etymology: imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cluck Cluck, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clucked; p pr. & vb. n. Clucking.] [AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken, G. glucken, glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative origin.] To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. --Ray.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cluck Cluck, v. t. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cluck Cluck, n. 1. The call of a hen to her chickens. 2. A click. See 3d Click, 2.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(clucks, clucking, clucked) When a hen clucks, it makes short, low noises. Chickens clucked in the garden. VERB: V

Moby Thesaurus

cackle, call, carol, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, dimwit, drum, dumb, gabble, gaggle, gobble, guggle, honk, hoo, hoot, peep, pip, pipe, quack, roll, scold, sing, squawk, trill, tweet, twit, twitter, warble, whistle