Cluck - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms

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SKIP TO CONTENT cluck /klək/ /klək/ IPA guide

Other forms: clucking; clucked; clucks

The sound a chicken makes is a cluck. One of the best things about keeping chickens in your yard is watching them scratch the dirt and listening to their clucks.

A chicken or hen clucks when she's rounding up her chicks, making a short, relatively deep sound. To do this is also to cluck, and you can use the word to talk about a fussy or overprotective parent too: "It's so funny watching him cluck over his kids at the playground." The Old English root of cluck is cloccian, and both words are imitative — they echo the sound they're describing.

Definitions of cluck

noun the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) synonyms: clucking see moresee less type of: cry the characteristic utterance of an animal
verb make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens synonyms: clack, click see moresee less type of: emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

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