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cluck

cluck

12 4.3
A short sharp sound a hen makes to call her chicks
  • noun
  • /klʌk/
translation icon : cloqueo
  • Instead, they are looking like full-on chickens and are now alternating between peeps and clucks.
  • a dumb cluck
  • soft clucks
  • loud cluck

Examples

  • Pretty soon, nieces swarmed in going cluck-cluck.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Then, as she adjusted the receiver, he heard the steady cluck-cluck-cluck of the signal.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • ~ Cluck, cluck, cluck said the little red hen Let's boogie in the barnyard ~

    Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

  • Her sympathetic clucks and nods spur him on.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Now, with a formal cluck, Zod summoned his prime minister, Yod, who alit by the throne.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The mother hen called her chicks with a soft cluck as she searched for food.

  • Hearing the familiar cluck from the coop, I knew it was time to feed the chickens.

  • After the storm passed, I was relieved to hear the reassuring cluck of the hen.

Synonyms

bawk
vscluck
10 9.9

A short clucking sound made by a chicken

is a shorter sharper hen call rather than a broader cackling noise
clucking
vscluck
7 4.4

A soft, short sound a hen makes to call her chicks

is a short sharp sound used especially for calling chicks

Compounds

dumb cluck
  • Offensive
1 9.8

A person who acts in a silly or foolish way

How Loud

squawk
21 4.9
cackle
10 4.1
cluck
12 4.3
to cheep
1 3.9
peep
14 1.0

Surface Forms

cluck singular
clucks plural

Etymology

Cluck comes from the sound hens make; the word copies their short, sharp 'cluck' call that a mother hen gives to her chicks, so the noun names that particular bird noise.