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cluck

noun
/klʌk/

Etymology

From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, 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”).

  1. inherited from *klukkwōną✻ — “to make a sound, cluck”
  2. inherited from *klukkwōn✻
  3. inherited from cloccian
  4. inherited from clokken

Definitions

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

  2. Any sound similar to this.

  3. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A setting hen.

    2. To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).

    3. To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.

      • My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.

    4. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

      • When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.

    5. To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

    6. A surname.

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Derived

dumb cluck, clucker, cluck one's tongue, clucky

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA