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cluck1
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Audio Help [kluhk] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object)
–verb (used with object)
–noun
| 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. |
| 3. | to call or utter by clucking. |
| 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
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cluck2
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Audio Help [kluhk] Pronunciation Key –noun Slang.
| a dull-witted, stupid person; blockhead; dolt. |
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| cluck
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n.
v. clucked, cluck·ing, clucks v. intr.
v. tr.
[Middle English clokken, from Old English cloccian.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
cluck
O.E. cloccian originally echoic. Cf. Turkish culuk, one of the words for "turkey."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| cluck | |
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| 1. | the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) |
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| 1. | make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
cluck [klak] noun
(a sound like) the call of a hen
cluck [klak] verb
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to make such a sound
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Cluck
Clock\, v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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