Cluck

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.
  • noun. A sound similar to this.
  • noun. A stupid or foolish person.
  • intransitive verb. To utter the characteristic sound of a hen.
  • intransitive verb. To make a sound similar to that of a hen, as in coaxing a horse.
  • intransitive verb. To call by making the characteristic sound of a hen or a similar sound.
  • intransitive verb. To express by clucking.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To utter the call or cry of a brooding hen or a hen with young chicks.
  • To call or incite by clucking, as a hen her chicks.
  • noun. A sound uttered by a hen when broody, or in calling her chicks.
  • noun. Same as click, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
  • transitive verb. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
  • noun. The call of a hen to her chickens.
  • noun. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
  • noun. Any sound similar to this.
  • noun. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
  • verb. To make such a sound.
  • verb. to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
  • noun. the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
  • Word Usage
    "The common cluck is presented with so much nonsense to sift through its no wonder that Atkins diets and similar ilk get more attention (and thus validity in the public eye) by popularizing one or two bad ideas and focusing on that."
    cross-reference
    cackle  
    Form
    clucked  clucking  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cry  emit  let loose  let out  utter  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Buck  Canuck  Chuck  Duck  Gluck  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cackle  cackling  chirrup  coo  huff  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cackle  call  call  carol  caw  
    variant
    click  
    verb-form
    clucked  clucking  clucks