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cluck (v.)

"to utter the call or cry of a hen," Old English cloccian originally echoic. Compare Turkish culuk, one of the words for "turkey;" Greek klozein, Latin glocire, German glucken. Related: Clucked; clucking.

cluck (n.)

1703, "sound made by a hen," from cluck (v.). Slang meaning "stupid person" (chickens and turkeys are famously foolish) is from 1927.

Entries linking to cluck

clutch (n.3)

"a brood, the number of eggs incubated at any one time," in reference to chickens, 1721, a southern England dialectal variant of cletch (1690s), noun from cleck (v.), which is from Middle English clekken "to hatch, give birth to" (c. 1400), which is probably from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse klekja "to hatch"), perhaps of imitative origin (compare cluck (v.)). Compare batch/bake.

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Definitions of cluck
1
cluck (v.)
make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens;
Synonyms: click / clack
2
cluck (n.)
the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks);
Synonyms: clucking
From wordnet.princeton.edu

Dictionary entries near cluck

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club-fist

club-foot

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clue

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clump

clumperton

clumpy

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