cluck

(kluk)

intransitive verb

to make a low, sharp, clicking sound, as of a hen calling her chickens or brooding

Origin: ME clokken < OE cloccian: orig. echoic

transitive verb

to utter with such a sound: to cluck one's disapproval

noun

  1. the sound of clucking
  2. Slang a dull, stupid person; dolt

See cluck in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. a. The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.
    b. A sound similar to this.
  2. Informal A stupid or foolish person.
verb clucked, cluck·ing, clucks
verb, intransitive
  1. To utter the characteristic sound of a hen.
  2. To make a sound similar to that of a hen, as in coaxing a horse.
verb, transitive
  1. To call by making the characteristic sound of a hen or a similar sound.
  2. To express by clucking: He clucked disapproval.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English clokken

Origin: , from Old English cloccian

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