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cluck

1  [kluhk]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
2. to make a similar sound; express concern, approval, etc., by such a sound.
–verb (used with object)
3. to call or utter by clucking.
–noun
4. the sound uttered by a hen when brooding, or in calling her chicks.
5. any clucking sound.
Origin:
1475–85; var. of clock (now dial. and Scot), ME clokken, OE cloccian to cluck; c. D klokken

cluck

2  [kluhk]
–noun Slang.
a dull-witted, stupid person; blockhead; dolt.
Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; special use of cluck 1
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cluck   (klŭk)   
n.  
    1. The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.
    2. A sound similar to this.
  2. Informal A stupid or foolish person.
v.   clucked, cluck·ing, clucks

v.   intr.
  1. To utter the characteristic sound of a hen.
  2. To make a sound similar to that of a hen, as in coaxing a horse.
v.   tr.
  1. To call by making the characteristic sound of a hen or a similar sound.
  2. To express by clucking: He clucked disapproval.

[Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian.]
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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.

Cluck

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. --Shak.

Cluck

Cluck\, n. 1. The call of a hen to her chickens.

2. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : cluck
Spanish: cloqueo,
German: das Glucken,
Japanese: めんどりの鳴き声
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cluck 
O.E. cloccian originally echoic. Cf. Turkish culuk, one of the words for "turkey."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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