cluck

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

kakelen

klokken

klakken

gekakel

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

glousser

cacarear

cloquear

glucken

gackern

cloqueo

κακαρίζω

gıdaklamak

locken

cloquejar

caqueter

cacarejar

cacarejo

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/klʌk/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: clokken

Overgenomen van Oudengels: cloccian

Verwant aan Schots: clok

Verwant aan Nederlands: klokken

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: klucken

Verwant aan Duits: glucken

Verwant aan Deens: klukke

Verwant aan Zweeds: klucka

Verwant aan IJslands: 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”).