cluck
/klʌk/
verb
- To make the short, low sound that a chicken makes.
- The mother bird clucked a warning when we got too close.
- The hen clucked softly to call her chicks.
- We could hear the chickens clucking in the barnyard.
- To make a similar sound with the tongue, often to show disapproval or sympathy.
- He clucked in sympathy when he heard about the accident.
- She clucked disapprovingly at the children's messy room.
- The old woman clucked her tongue and shook her head.
noun
- The short, low sound made by a chicken or a similar sound.
- A loud cluck came from the henhouse.
- We heard the soft cluck of a hen settling on her nest.
- The farmer imitated a chicken's cluck to call them.