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Webster 1913 Edition

Cluck

Cluck

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Clucked
;
p pr. & vb. n.
Clucking
.]
[AS.
cloccian
; cf. D.
klokken
, G.
glucken
,
glucksen
, LG.
klukken
, Dan.
klukke
; all prob. of imitative origin.]
To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
Ray.

Cluck

,
Verb.
T.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has
clucked
three to the wars.
Shakespeare

Cluck

,
Noun.
1.
The call of a hen to her chickens.
2.
A click. See 3d
Click
, 2.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cluck

CLUCK

,
Verb.
I.
To make the noise, or utter the voice of the domestic hen, when sitting on eggs for hatching, and when conducting her chickens. This voice, with the change of the vowel, is precisely our word clack and clock, and is probably an onomatopy. [See Clack and Clock.]

CLUCK

,
Verb.
T.
To call chickens by a particular sound.

Definition 2024

cluck

cluck

English

Alternative forms

Noun

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.

Translations

Verb

cluck ‎(third-person singular simple present clucks, present participle clucking, simple 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.
    • Shakespeare
      She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, / Has clucked three to the wars.
  4. (Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.

Translations

See also

Etymology

From Middle English clocken, clokken, from Old English cloccian ‎(“to cluck, make a noise”), 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”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʌk

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