CLUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cluck mean? 

• CLUCK (noun)
  The noun CLUCK has 1 sense:

1. the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)

  Familiarity information: CLUCK used as a noun is very rare.

• CLUCK (verb)
  The verb CLUCK has 1 sense:

1. make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

  Familiarity information: CLUCK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

cluck; clucking

Hypernyms ("cluck" is a kind of...):

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

Derivation:

cluck (make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens)

• CLUCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cluck    ... he / she / it clucks   
Past simple: clucked   
Past participle: clucked   
-ing form: clucking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

clack; click; cluck

Hypernyms (to "cluck" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

cluck (the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks))

 Context examples 

The very cattle looked more tranquil than ours, as they stood knee-deep in clover, and the hens had a contented cluck, as if they never got nervous like Yankee biddies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was the shrill out-cry of the landlady when she found her loss, and the clucking of the hens, which had streamed in through the open door, that first broke in upon the slumbers of the tired wayfarers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)