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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



... understand it, can you? Your whole brood is turning out to be the kind that pines to be 'in the swim' for itself. Still, you didn't cluck distractedly when Joyce went to New York and Holland into the Navy, and you followed Jack up here when he struck out for himself, and you know Norman's chosen work is liable to take him anywhere on the face of the globe. So I ...
— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston
... its rumbling. Already the valley was rocking itself to sleep. Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead. A flock of weary sheep pattered along the road, barnward bound, heavy eyed and bleating softly. The blue gate was opened wide. My hand was on Tim's shoulder and Tim's arm ...
— The Soldier of the Valley • Nelson Lloyd
... orator, who now dwelt upon the rapid benefits of the railways, the excellent men and things they brought to Arizona, the leap into civilization that the Territory had taken. "Let Pennsylvania see those blossoming fields for herself," said he, "those boundless contiguities of shade." And a sort of cluck went off down inside my neighbor's throat, while the speaker with rising heat gave us the tonnage of plums exported from the Territory during the past fiscal year. ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... Thing that bellowed and writhed in pain. Frithiof drew in his breath and held it till the red letters of the ship's name, woven across his jersey, straggled and opened out as though they had been type badly set. Then he said with a little cluck in his throat, 'Ah me! It is blind. Hur illa! That thing is blind,' and a murmur of pity went through us all, for we could see that the thing on the water was blind and in pain. Something had gashed and cut the great sides cruelly and the blood was spurting ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling
... had risen very suddenly. Her face had flushed and a glitter come into the eyes behind the big spectacles, while her lips had closed with a sort of cluck. Leaning across the table, ...
— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond


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