cluck

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

glousser

caqueter

gloussement

clic

cliquer

faire claquer sa langue

Synonymes

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

Traductions

glucken

kakelen

cloquear

cacarear

gackern

cloqueo

κακαρίζω

gıdaklamak

locken

cloquejar

klokken

cacarejar

cacarejo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/klʌk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: clokken

Hérité de ancien anglais: cloccian

Appartenant à écossais: clok

Appartenant à néerlandais: klokken

Appartenant à bas-allemand: klucken

Appartenant à allemand: glucken

Appartenant à danois: klukke

Appartenant à suédois: klucka

Appartenant à islandais: 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”).