cluck

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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. A setting hen.

Verb

1. To make such a sound.
2. To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
3. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
4. To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

Konzepte

gackern

glucken

locken

glucksen

klappern

Gackern

Synonyme

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

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/klʌk/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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”).