cluck
Plural: clucks
Noun
- the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
- The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
- Any sound similar to this.
- A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
- A setting hen.
Verb
Verb Forms: clucked, clucking, clucks
- To make the short, broken sound of a hen.
- make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
- To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
- To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
- To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
- To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
Examples
- My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
- She would CLUCK with frustration every time her opponent formed a high-scoring word.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).
Scrabble Score: 13
cluck: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcluck: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cluck: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary