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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
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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
cluck [klək]

and kluck
  1. n.
    a stupid person; a person as stupid as a chicken. : Why did they send me a dumb cluck to do this work? , You silly kluck! Why'd you do that?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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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