• IPA: /klʌk/

cluck (plural clucks)

1. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
2. Any sound similar to this.
3. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

• French: gloussement
• German: Gackern
• Italian: chioccio
• Portuguese: cacarejo
• Russian: куда́хтанье
• Spanish: cloqueo, clo

cluck (clucks, present participle clucking; past and past participle clucked)

1. (intransitive) To make such a sound.
2. (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.

   My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.

3. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:

     When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
     Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.

4. (British, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.

• French: glousser
• German: gackern
• Portuguese: cacarejar
• Russian: куда́хтать
• Spanish: cloquear

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