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- Dictionarycluck/klʌk/
verb
- 1. (of a hen) make a short, low sound: "the chickens clucked and scratched in the dirt"
noun
- 1. the short, low sound made by a hen.
- 2. a foolish person. informal North American
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noun. 1. : the characteristic sound made by a hen especially in calling her chicks. 2. : a stupid or naive person.
CLUCK definition: 1. to make the low, interrupted noise that a chicken makes 2. to express disapproval or other…. Learn more.
Cluck definition: to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.. See examples of CLUCK used in a sentence.
to express disapproval or other emotion by making a short, sharp sound with your tongue: cluck in to cluck in disapproval / amazement. She shakes her head, smiles, and clucks her tongue. [ I ] informal. to express an unnecessary amount of sympathy, worry, or approval toward someone: cluck over The attendants clucked and fussed over passengers.
To cluck at someone or something means to make disapproving noises or say things in a disapproving way.
[intransitive] to make a short low sound with your tongue to show that you feel sorry for somebody or that you think something is bad. The teacher clucked sympathetically at the child's story. Word Origin. See cluck in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: cluck.
A chicken or hen clucks when she's rounding up her chicks, making a short, relatively deep sound. To do this is also to cluck, and you can use the word to talk about a fussy or overprotective parent too: "It's so funny watching him cluck over his kids at the playground."
