cluck

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  1. noun The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.
  2. noun A sound similar to this.
  3. noun Informal A stupid or foolish person.
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  • Speed, however, was of the essence ;which was all right with Gurlick, who spit on his hands and made cluck-cluck noises from his back teeth and wrinkled up half his face with an obscene wink, and snickered again to show his willingness The sphere hovered now at treetop level over heavily wooded ground, keeping out of sight while awaiting the alien computation of the best conceivable circumstances for Gurlick ;s project. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • But the press seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time cluck-clucking over the Hay-Adams. —  Brilliant at Breakfast
  • Flipping the switch in the back produced a familiar, wonderful sound that was music to my ears - cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck. —  Low End Mac
  • Reed landed the first Top 10 pop hit of his own in 1970 with a country funk tune about a Cajun alligator hunter built around Reed's chicken-cluck electric guitar leads and cackling laugh. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • This is the hour when the mallards stir, clear throats, cluck, shake, eye thistle and corn at the feeders, eye tadpoles, float, feed, paddle, pluck. —  ImpeachBush
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  1. Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian.

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  1. Also dial. clutch; earlier usually clock (see clock); from Middle English clokken, from Anglo-Saxon cloccian = Middle Dutch klocken, Dutch klokken = Middle Low German klucken, Low German klukken = Middle High German klucken, also glucken, German glucken = Danish klukke = Swedish klucka = Welsh clwcian, clocian = Latin glocire, later *glociare (cf. glocidare and gluttire, cited from Festus) (later Italian chiocciare, crocciare = Spanish clocar, cloquear, coclear = Provencal cloquiar = Old French cloucer, gloucer, later glosser, glousser, French glousser), cluck as a hen (cf. Italian chioccia = Spanish clueca = Middle Low German klucke = Middle High German klucke, German klucke, glucke, a brooding hen; English dial. cleck, hatch, cleck, cluck), = Greek κλώσσ, σ1ειν, cluck as a hen; cf. Greek κλώζειν, croak as a jackdaw, groan in disapprobation; Hindustani kurkurāna, cluck, cackle, murmur: all imitative words, more or less varied, which may be compared, as to form, with chuck, click, clack, crake, croak, cock.
  2. from cluck, v. In second sense, cf. click, n.
 

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