Cluck
noun
The sound a chicken makes.
The hens were making a loud cluck in the backyard.
Often appears as...
- loud cluck
- soft cluck
verb
To make the sound similar to a chicken.
The hen clucked loudly as it was frightened.
Often appears as...
- cluck loudly
- cluck quietly
verb
To express disapproval or scorn by making a cluck sound.
My grandmother would cluck her tongue whenever she disapproved of something.
Often appears as...
- cluck her tongue
- cluck his tongue
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
The sound a chicken makes.
The hens were making a loud cluck in the backyard.
Often appears as...
- loud cluck
- soft cluck
verb
To make the sound similar to a chicken.
The hen clucked loudly as it was frightened.
Often appears as...
- cluck loudly
- cluck quietly
verb
To express disapproval or scorn by making a cluck sound.
My grandmother would cluck her tongue whenever she disapproved of something.
Often appears as...
- cluck her tongue
- cluck his tongue
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Sounds
Use 'cluck' when describing sounds specific to chickens, especially hens.
You can hear the hen's cluck at dawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Onomatopoeia
'Cluck' is an example of onomatopoeia, where the word imitates the sound it represents.
Mimic the cluck when writing animal sounds in stories.
Pro Tip 3/3Maternal Instinct
Hens cluck to communicate with their chicks, often seen as a nurturing behavior.
The mother hen clucked, gathering her chicks.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Sounds
Use 'cluck' when describing sounds specific to chickens, especially hens.
You can hear the hen's cluck at dawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Onomatopoeia
'Cluck' is an example of onomatopoeia, where the word imitates the sound it represents.
Mimic the cluck when writing animal sounds in stories.
Pro Tip 3/3Maternal Instinct
Hens cluck to communicate with their chicks, often seen as a nurturing behavior.
The mother hen clucked, gathering her chicks.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Sounds
Use 'cluck' when describing sounds specific to chickens, especially hens.
You can hear the hen's cluck at dawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Onomatopoeia
'Cluck' is an example of onomatopoeia, where the word imitates the sound it represents.
Mimic the cluck when writing animal sounds in stories.
Pro Tip 3/3Maternal Instinct
Hens cluck to communicate with their chicks, often seen as a nurturing behavior.
The mother hen clucked, gathering her chicks.
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Video examples
Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...
fantastic the other reason why it's so incredible as there's a confusion of guinea fowls that's not far off from them that is absolutely having a fit look look look having a fit that these birds of prey are down here on the ground and they're sort of circling them and they're calling and clucking but at the same
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Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
whistlers are the gray hornbills because when they whistle they put the head back and then they whistle and as you might expect the head down clickers which include the southern red build and the southern yellow-billed hornbills put heads down and they cluck it really is
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Safari Live - Day 178 PIPE...
know an antelope of sports I I assume maybe from anyways my name is Taylor McCready and on camera with me today cluck and Rickson is assisting us areas in the distance very exciting stuff so I'm not really sure what happened yet and when this happened because you know
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Going Undercover to Save...
started backing away but in the distance he heard even more of them now dolls make noises that no other dog species makes sometimes they even whistle or cluck like a chicken but those sounds are important because they help them communicate during a hunt
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Gorilla Charge PIPE...
Matata ending believe me they know the clucking very well and if you don't do it they think you were someone coming to kill them we know we're close but where are they you can actually smell the silver back it's probably strong to
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Carol Beckwith & Angela...
they roll their eyes show off their teeth so that their judges can appreciate the strength of the whites of their eyes and teeth and they make clicking and hissing and kissing and clucking sounds to attract their female
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Michael Pollan: A...
clucking, gossiping as chickens will -- and they make a beeline for the cow patties. And what they're doing is very they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots, the grubs, the larvae of flies.
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How to Raise Successful...
And they see in our faces that our approval, that our love, that their very worth, comes from A's. And then we walk alongside them and offer clucking praise like a trainer at the Westminster Dog Show --
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A plant's-eye view -...
clucking gossiping as chickens will and they make a beeline for the cow patties and what they're doing is very interesting they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots the grub the larvae of
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Safari Live - Day 269 PIPE...
know what mr. it might be your birthday yeah they're very careful when you watch them clucking off grasp it's okay well in fact I think there may be some lambs in
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...
fantastic the other reason why it's so incredible as there's a confusion of guinea fowls that's not far off from them that is absolutely having a fit look look look having a fit that these birds of prey are down here on the ground and they're sort of circling them and they're calling and clucking but at the same
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
whistlers are the gray hornbills because when they whistle they put the head back and then they whistle and as you might expect the head down clickers which include the southern red build and the southern yellow-billed hornbills put heads down and they cluck it really is
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 178 PIPE...
know an antelope of sports I I assume maybe from anyways my name is Taylor McCready and on camera with me today cluck and Rickson is assisting us areas in the distance very exciting stuff so I'm not really sure what happened yet and when this happened because you know
Video examples
Going Undercover to Save...
started backing away but in the distance he heard even more of them now dolls make noises that no other dog species makes sometimes they even whistle or cluck like a chicken but those sounds are important because they help them communicate during a hunt
Video examples
Gorilla Charge PIPE...
Matata ending believe me they know the clucking very well and if you don't do it they think you were someone coming to kill them we know we're close but where are they you can actually smell the silver back it's probably strong to
Video examples
Carol Beckwith & Angela...
they roll their eyes show off their teeth so that their judges can appreciate the strength of the whites of their eyes and teeth and they make clicking and hissing and kissing and clucking sounds to attract their female
Video examples
Michael Pollan: A...
clucking, gossiping as chickens will -- and they make a beeline for the cow patties. And what they're doing is very they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots, the grubs, the larvae of flies.
Video examples
How to Raise Successful...
And they see in our faces that our approval, that our love, that their very worth, comes from A's. And then we walk alongside them and offer clucking praise like a trainer at the Westminster Dog Show --
Video examples
A plant's-eye view -...
clucking gossiping as chickens will and they make a beeline for the cow patties and what they're doing is very interesting they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots the grub the larvae of
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 269 PIPE...
know what mr. it might be your birthday yeah they're very careful when you watch them clucking off grasp it's okay well in fact I think there may be some lambs in
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Quote examples
Maeve Binchy
Irish Novelist
In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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Deborah Moggach
English Writer
I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.
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James McAvoy
Scottish Actor
I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.
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Robert Fulghum
American Author
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
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Maeve Binchy
Irish Novelist
In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
Quote examples
Deborah Moggach
English Writer
I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.
Quote examples
James McAvoy
Scottish Actor
I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.
Quote examples
Robert Fulghum
American Author
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
Example 1 of 4
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