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cluck

1 American  
[kluhk] / klʌk /

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)

  1. to call or utter by clucking.

noun

  1. the sound uttered by a hen when brooding, or in calling her chicks.

  2. any clucking sound.

cluck 2 American  
[kluhk] / klʌk /

noun

Slang.

  1. a dull-witted, stupid person; blockhead; dolt.

cluck British  
/ klʌk /

noun

  1. the low clicking sound made by a hen or any similar sound

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verb

  1. (intr) (of a hen) to make a clicking sound

  2. (tr) to call or express (a feeling) by making a similar sound

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Etymology

Origin of cluck1

1475–85; variant of clock 1 (now dial. and Scot), Middle English clokken, Old English cloccian to cluck; cognate with Dutch klokken

Origin of cluck2

1900–05, special use of cluck 1

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