Definitions for cluck

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Spelling: [kluhk]

IPA: /klʌk/

Cluck is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in cluck (ccklu).

Definitions for cluck

noun

1. the sound uttered by a hen when brooding, or in calling her chicks.
2. any clucking sound.
3. a dull-witted, stupid person; blockhead; dolt.

verb (used with object)

1. to call or utter by clucking.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
2. to make a similar sound; express concern, approval, etc., by such a sound.

Origin of cluck

1475-85; variant of clock¹ (now dial. and Scot), Middle English clokken, Old English cloccian to cluck; cognate with Dutch klokken

Examples for cluck

Secondly, readers should not cluck their satisfaction so blithely over economic sanctions.

I know all the birds say when they twitter and chirp, caw and coo, gobble and cluck.

Three distinct sounds are produced: "Puff, cluck, b-o-o-r-r-r-m-i."

Whenever they get hungry, the mamma hen will come to the door of the house and cluck.

She can cluck, cluck them close up to her, and often she catches them.

It used to be cute, and adults would shake their heads and cluck their tongues.

While feeding it utters a low-sounding cluck, cluck, at short intervals.

The hot retort from Barrett ended in his throat with a cluck.

He couldn't afford to have this chance smashed by a cluck like Garret.

There they sit for a short time, when their leader gives a loud “cluck.”