Pronunciation: /klʌk/
noun a short, low sound made by a chicken or similar bird
A1 The chicken made a loud cluck.
A2 I heard the cluck of a hen in the distance.
B1 The farmer listened for the cluck of the hens in the coop.
B2 The cluck of the rooster signaled the start of the day on the farm.
C1 The rhythmic cluck of the chickens provided a soothing background noise.
C2 The scientist studied the different pitches of clucks produced by various breeds of chickens.
verb to make a short, low sound like a chicken
A1 The hen clucks happily in the farmyard.
A2 The mother hen clucked to her chicks to come and eat.
B1 The farmer clucked at the chickens to gather them for feeding.
B2 The rooster clucked loudly to assert his dominance in the coop.
C1 The poultry farmer clucks softly to calm the nervous hens during a storm.
C2 The sound of the hens clucking in the morning signaled the start of a new day on the farm.
formal The sound of a chicken's cluck echoed through the farmyard.
informal I heard the hen cluck loudly as she laid an egg.
slang Stop clucking about it, it's not a big deal.
figurative The old man's voice had a distinctive cluck to it, like he had smoked cigars for years.
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