cluck

(Inglese)

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.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/klʌk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: clokken

Ereditato da inglese antico: cloccian

Affine scozzese: clok

Affine olandese: klokken

Affine basso tedesco: klucken

Affine tedesco: glucken

Affine danese: klukke

Affine svedese: klucka

Affine islandese: 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”).

Concetti

chiocciare

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

glousser

gackern

cacarear

kakelen

cloqueo

glucken

cloquear

κακαρίζω

gdakać

locken

klokken

cacarejar

cloquejar

caqueter

gıdaklamak