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Cluck   /klək/   Listen
noun
Cluck  n.  
1.
The call of a hen to her chickens.
2.
A click. See 3d Click, 2.


verb
Cluck  v. t.  To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. "She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars."


Cluck  v. i.  (past & past part. clucked; pres. part. clucking)  To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.





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"Cluck" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the late June sun, there is a general air of life, a tremulous merriment, everywhere: the voices of the children, a certain laugh that rings like far-off music, the cooing of the pigeons beneath the eaves, the cluck-cluck of the silly fowls in the farm-yard,—all mingle to defy the creeping sense of ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... knelt on the floor, her glasses pushed above her forehead, wrestling valiantly with a refractory strap of her suit case. A moment and she had buckled it into place with a triumphant cluck. "There, that won't have to be done at the last minute. Shall I telephone the girls that we are coming? It's ...
— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower
... readers will indulge Their wits a mystic meaning to discover; Secrets ne'er dreamt of by the bard divulge, And where he shoots a cluck, will find a plover; Satiric shafts from every line promulge, Detect a tyrant where he draws a lover: Nay, so intent his hidden thoughts to see, Cry, if he paint a ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... noise that he took for the ticking of a watch and hence *inferred that there had really been a watch, that he had seen it, and finally *believed that he had seen it. Another witness asserts that X has many chickens; as a matter of fact he has heard two chickens cluck and infers a large number. Still another has seen footprints of cattle and speaks of a herd, or he knows the exact time of a murder because at a given time he heard somebody sigh, etc. There would be little difficulty if people told us how they had inferred, for then a ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... you think so," I claimed the remark by exclaiming, while she made her claim by a contented little cluck. ...
— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess


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