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clucky

8.4

Wanting strongly to have a baby or acting in a motherly way

adjective

: deseosa de tener un bebé

Feeling clucky, she started buying baby clothes and reading parenting books.

Examples

You've got to ask yourself: "Do I feel clucky?"

Quest for Camelot (1998)
She is also the most clucky so far.

Blog text (1)
After watching the baby play, she felt a strong sense of clucky longing.
Her friends noticed how clucky she became whenever they talked about starting a family.

Synonyms

broody

vsclucky

1 8.5

Being ready to sit on eggs to hatch them

expresses a human desire for a baby and maternal feelings rather than egg incubation

Antonyms

nonmaternal

7.0

Not showing the usual caring feelings or behavior of a mother

How Maternal

broody

1 8.5

desperate

704 3.3

clucky

8.4

indifferent

46 4.4

Surface Forms

clucky positive

Morphology

clucky = cluck (semi-transparent) = cluck + y

The adjective is formed in the regular way from 'cluck' + -y, but the human sense ('desire to have a baby') is a metaphorical extension from hen broodiness and may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Clucky comes from the hen sound cluck meaning 'the short noise a hen makes' and the ending -y meaning 'full of'. So if someone is clucky, they feel like a hen wanting chicks — a strong wish to have a baby.