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clucky

clucky

7.8
Making short, sharp sounds like a hen
  • adjective
  • /ˈklʌki/
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  • We heard a clucky noise coming from the bushes near the chicken coop.

Examples

  • The clucky hen called out to her chicks as they wandered away.

  • She could hear the clucky sounds of the chickens in the yard.

  • The hen became clucky as she searched for her missing chicks.

  • The old radio made a strange, clucky sound before it finally turned on.

  • The clucky hen sat on her eggs.

  • My neighbor has a clucky chicken that always makes noise.

  • A clucky noise filled the air when the mother hen gathered her chicks.

Synonyms

cackly
vsclucky
8.7

A harsh, high laugh that sounds like a hen

makes softer rounded hen sounds rather than harsh shrill ones

How Noisy

raucous
31 7.1
noisy
125 1.0
clucky
7.8
quiet
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

clucky positive

Morphology

clucky = cluck (transparent) = cluck + y

Regular adjectival formation from a sound verb or noun: 'cluck' + -y gives 'making or characterized by clucking sounds', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Clucky comes from the sound cluck ('the short noise a hen makes') plus the ending -y ('like' or 'full of'). That's why clucky describes something that makes or is like a cluck, such as a hen or a little clucking noise.