cluck

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

clucksclutchclock

1.
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
2.
Any sound similar to this.
3.
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
4.
(Texas)A setting hen.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

clucks

V_ing/Gerund

clucking

V_ed/pp

cluckedclutch

1.
(intransitive)To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
Đồng nghĩa: chuck
2.
(transitive)To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
3.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
4.
(British)(British, drug slang) To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

chuck

Cùng gốc / liên quan

dumb cluckcackle

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (to cluck, make a noise), from *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (to make a sound, cluck), of imitative origin.