cluck

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

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.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
2. (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
3. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
4. (British) To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

Conceptes

cloquejar

escatainar

escataïnar

Sinònims

cackle

chuck

clack

click

clucking

gabble

chuckle

squawk

drum

🥁

cackling

gaggle

high-hat

smack

keep on clucking

ribbonfish

cubbyu

donkey fish

move up one’s tongue

crow

Traduccions

glousser

cloquear

cacarear

κακαρίζω

cloqueo

gackern

glucken

kakelen

locken

cacarejar

klokken

gıdaklamak

caqueter

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/klʌk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: clokken

Heretat de anglès antic: cloccian

Cognat amb escocès: clok

Cognat amb neerlandès: klokken

Cognat amb baix alemany: klucken

Cognat amb alemany: glucken

Cognat amb danès: klukke

Cognat amb suec: klucka

Cognat amb islandès: klökkva

In summary

From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).