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Cluck   Listen
noun
Cluck  n.  
1.
The call of a hen to her chickens.
2.
A click. See 3d Click, 2.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cluck" Quotes from Famous Books



... have. Only the mask smiles Comedy at me, and Tragedy at you. Madame, why do you cluck ...
— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... that are over-valiant among the maidens, and heavy of heart when they think the screech of the jay an Indian whoop, I care not if ye beat the pickets to the earth, and call upon them to enter on the gallop. I know the manner to send them to the upper story of the block, quicker than the cluck of the turkey can muster its ...
— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper

... pot of the poor! How I love the peasant gardens at noonday when the mournful blue shadow of the vegetables sleeps in the white squares of granular earth, when the cock calls the silence, and when the buzzard, slanting and wheeling, makes the scuttling hen cluck! There are the flowers of simple loves, the flowers of the young wife who will dry the blue lavender to scent her coarse sheets. And in this garden grows also the flower of the rondel—the humble gilliflower with its simple ...
— Romance of the Rabbit • Francis Jammes

... in the editorial department on the top floor, feeding voice-tape to Julio while the latter made master sheets for teleprinting. I gave him a quick rundown on what had happened that he hadn't gotten from my radio. Dad cluck-clucked in disapproval, either at my getting into a fight, assaulting an officer, or, literally, throwing ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper

... for the dog or cat, Will squeak like chicken, hurt, And cluck and crow and bark and mew, So comical ...
— Mother Truth's Melodies - Common Sense For Children • Mrs. E. P. Miller



Words linked to "Cluck" :   clucking, clack, cry, click, utter, emit



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