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cluck one's tongue

verb

Definitions

  1. To click one's tongue.

    • The spring had got into his blood, too; he felt the need for letting steam escape, and clucked his tongue, flourishing his whip, wheeling his horses […]
    • I went out and had a chat with the foreman of the men; he clucked his tongue when he heard what had happened, and opined that I was lucky to have come off so lightly with nobody there to help me out of the machine.
    • “To think a man like Mr. Tucker would do something like that!”" She went out, clucking her tongue in exaggerated dismay.

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