cluck

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

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

Traducións

glousser

gackern

cacarear

cloquear

glucken

cloqueo

κακαρίζω

kakelen

locken

klokken

cacarejar

cloquejar

caqueter

gıdaklamak

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/klʌk/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: clokken

Herdado de Old English: cloccian

Relativo a escocés: clok

Relativo a neerlandés: klokken

Relativo a baixo alemán: klucken

Relativo a alemán: glucken

Relativo a dinamarqués: klukke

Relativo a sueco: klucka

Relativo a islandés: 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”).