clucking
/klʌkɪŋ/
adjective
- Making a clucking sound, like a chicken.
- A clucking sound came from the coop every morning.
- The clucking hen sat on her nest of eggs.
- The children laughed at the clucking noises the toy made.
noun
- The sound that a chicken makes.
- The clucking stopped when the farmer threw out some grain.
- The hen's clucking could be heard across the farmyard.
- We woke up to the soft clucking of chickens outside the window.
- A similar sound made by a person, often to express disapproval or annoyance.
- The old man's clucking showed he was not happy with the noise.
- I heard a clucking from the back of the room as the speaker made a mistake.
- She gave a disapproving clucking of her tongue when she saw the mess.