cluck

🇺🇸 /klʌk/ 🇬🇧 /klʌk/
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intransitive verb
R

to make a sound like a chicken does

The chicken clucked softly as it scratched in the dirt.

R

to make a clucking sound with your tongue to show sympathy or disapproval

The old woman clucked her tongue at the children's mess.

noun
R

the sound a chicken makes

The farmer heard a loud cluck from the henhouse.

translation

vi. to make a sound like a chicken does; to make a clucking sound with your tongue to show sympathy or disapproval
n. the sound a chicken makes

Word Forms

3rd Present clucks
Progressive clucking
Past clucked
Perfect clucked
Plural clucks