[syn: cluck, click, clack]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cluck \Cluck\, v. t.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her
chickens.
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She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has clucked three to the wars. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cluck \Cluck\, n.
1. The call of a hen to her chickens.
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2. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cluck
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "cluck":
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