n. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
n. Any sound similar to this.
n. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
v. To make such a sound.
v. to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-intransitive. To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
v. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
n. The call of a hen to her chickens.
n. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To utter the call or cry of a brooding hen or a hen with young chicks.
To call or incite by clucking, as a hen her chicks.
n. A sound uttered by a hen when broody, or in calling her chicks.
n. Same as click, 2.
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v. make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
n. the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
Word Usage
""Those who don't like a rogue's progress, preferring to cluck from a distance over the skeevy habits of today's rich bachelors, should skip Sons of Hollywood," writes Virginia Heffernan."