clucking
present participle ofcluck
cluck
verb
uk/klʌk/us/klʌk/[I]
to make thelow,interruptednoisethat achickenmakes
[IorT]informal
toexpressdisapprovalor otheremotionby making ashort,sharpsoundwithyourtongue:
to cluckindisapproval/amazement
Sheshakesherhead,smiles, and clucks hertongue.
[I]informal
toexpressanunnecessaryamountofsympathy,worry, orapprovaltowards someone:
Theattendantsclucked andfussedoverpassengers.
Animal (non-human) sounds
- baa
- bleat
- buzzy
- caterwauling
- chatter
- cockcrow
- coo
- cry
- hee-haw
- honk
- howling
- miaow
- moo
- peep
- purr
- quack
- squeak
- trill
- trumpet
- warble
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Disapproving & criticizing
Exaggerating & playing down
Examplesofclucking
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We see this readily, for example, in his casual attribution of joy to the rhythmicallycluckinghen.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thecluckingof a hen will indicate the very same joy from one hen to another, a concordance of experience made possible by all hens' comparable physiological structures.
From theCambridge English Corpus
He makes a sort ofcluckingnoise of disagreement.
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We have heard tonight thecluckingnoises of distaste for the worst excesses of the régime.
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If the intruder is caught, which rarely happens, a fight will occur, which is accompanied by softclucking, hoarse barking, and a type of roar.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The male then scrambled onto the female's back and copulated, which was then followed by softcluckingand occasionally more preening.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When red foxes draw close together, they emit trisyllabic greeting warbles similar to thecluckingof chickens.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most often, the act includes acluckingvocalization, commonly known as dooking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Feeding birds may give a low conversationalclucking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The song is based upon different twangy, up-and-down vocal hooks and has banjoscluckingalongside new wave electric guitars.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It usescluckingsounds to maintain auditory contact with other members of its group.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The instrumentation consisted ofcluckingbanjos alongside new wave electric guitars.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is often accompanied by a softcluckingnoise, commonly referred to as dooking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She is very sweet and makes weirdcluckingnoises resembling a chicken (hence her name).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He replaced the lyrics with chickenclucking, and used a variety of background musical arrangements.
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- cull something from something
- cull sth from sth
- cull-sth-from-sth
- culm
- culminate
- culmination
- culottes
- culpability
- culpable
- culpable homicide
- culpable-homicide
- culpably
- culprit
- cult
- cultic
- cultigen
- cultivable
- cultivar
- cultivate
- cultivated
- cultivated crop
- cultivated garden
- cultivated land
- cultivated plant
- cultivated rice