Definition of cluck in English:

cluck

verb klʌkklək

[no object]

1(of a hen) make a short, low sound.
（母鸡）咯咯叫
the chickens clucked and scratched in the dirt
Example sentencesExamples
- There were a number of carefully segregated piles of pipes, rusted auto parts, and other assorted items between which half a dozen scrawny chickens clucked and pecked their way through the dirt.
- When the road was clear, a few villagers ran out of their homes and onto the road, dogs barking and chickens clucking.
- There were the sounds of punching and kicking, objects being broken, grown-ups begging for mercy, children crying, chickens clucking, dogs yelping and pigs squealing.
- A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
- The chicken clucked once, and resumed her former position.
- If they ask if my eggs are fresh, I'll waddle around and cluck like a chicken and say, ‘Hey, they don't get any fresher than this.’
- She made a face as she groped under the black hen, which glared and clucked at her but yielded a warm, brown egg.
- The geese honked, and the hens hopped about clucking, as she giggled and ran after them.
- Street wardens patrolling the area found the birds clucking and pecking around and thought they had escaped from the nearby School Farm.
- There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
- He said he eats ‘anything that used to moo, cluck or oink - as long as it's cooked.’
- Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain.
- During one acting class, when the students were asked to pretend to be chickens under a falling atom bomb, everybody clucked frantically and raced around the room.
- Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws.
- The chickens clucked and scratched around his feet.
- As chickens cluck at our feet, he continues in his warm, soft voice: ‘They will never succeed in making me hate them.’
- The male clucks softly to the female it has chosen to be his mate, producing a sound similar to that made by females when calling to their young.
- With that, he starts to do a strutting chicken walk, wafting his arms about and clucking and squawking to himself.
- She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level.
- Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call
1. 1.1 (of a person) make a short, low sound with one's tongue to express concern or disapproval.
  （人表示关心或不满时以舌）发咯咯声，咂（舌）
  the bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically
  with object Carmichael clucked his tongue irritably
  卡迈克尔烦躁地咂着舌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For a moment, she was occupied with the task of scrutinizing everything in the parlor, clucking her tongue in disapproval.
  She clucked her tongue, apparently in disapproval, and turned away.
  The man clucked his tongue, as if he were feeling sorry for me, and moved forward to help me saddle the horse.
  She clucked her tongue a couple of times, frowning slightly.
  Of course, conservatives will cluck cluck sadly and say that we're overreacting.
  The maid clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes.
  He clucked his tongue in a mock disapproving way.
  He pulled out his watch and clucked his tongue at the time.
  I'd toss out a topic and he'd cluck his tongue and point out ways my idea could be offensive and controversial.
  I cluck my tongue at Carole, the way my grandmother clucks her tongue at me when I've said something utterly, wholly stupid.
  ‘That's no way to treat a lady, Eric,’ his mother scolded, clucking her tongue.
  Throughout the showing of the film, we were bombarded with audience members around us clucking their tongues and making other sympathetic noises.
  She sighed frustratedly and clucked her tongue.
  I shook my head, feeling the urge to cluck my tongue in disapproval.
  The bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically.
  ‘Oh I know,’ she said, clucking sympathetically.
  She shook her head and clucked her tongue, as if she were disappointed in me.
  My old therapist called it hyper-vigilance and clucked as she made notes about examples of the behavior in my daily life.
  Her mother, dressed in ski-pants, enters and clucks disapprovingly.
  So I declined his offer, letting him cluck in dismay.
  Despots die and their wars are read about in history books; we cluck our tongues, shake our heads and wonder at their evil.
2. 1.2cluck over/aroundno object Express fussy concern about.
  唠叨（表示关心）
  Pauline became worried about her health and constantly clucked over her
  波林担心起她的健康，不停对她唠叨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
  Matrons in gem-hued gowns were clucking over the other debutantes.
  He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
  She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
  My hand was swollen and still bled every time the bandages came off, and my companions clucked over it every evening when they tried their best to clean it.
  He says she is ‘cute’ and recalls how she spent time clucking over the daughters of both her friends at the wedding last year.
  The documentary was unremarkable until the worthy journalist stopped to cluck over a small girl at a festival of some kind.
  I grumble as we make our way outside the hall where young women were clucking around, fixing every semi-finalist model's hair, make-up, dress etc.
  The departure of Elisabeth was like the departure of a mother; she had been the old hen of the group, clucking over everybody and their goings-on with men, while never having one herself.
  As soon as he asks the checkout assistant, three more of them appear and start clucking around.
  My mother is clucking over me again, trying to flatten my hair by licking her hands and pressing them down on my head.
  She found herself again in sick bay, the doctor clucking over her in dismay.
  In every gift shop, there are more cute infants to cluck over.
  Right now, however, her sponsors and management plot her future, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow.

noun klʌkklək

1The short, low sound made by a hen.
（母鸡的）咯咯叫声
Example sentencesExamples
- A chorus of clucks answered the maiden when the door was opened.
- When I reached the gate, I heard happy moos and clucks from the chickens and cows.
- Farmers usually keep farm animals to supplement their income, but a visitor to this farm will not hear clucks or moos.
- But for the rest of us, the meaning behind creatures' clucks, rumbles, and whistles remains a mystery.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call
1. 1.1 A short, low sound made by a person to express concern or disapproval.
  （人表示烦恼的）咕哝声
  Loretta gave a cluck of impatience
  洛雷塔发出不耐烦的咕哝声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
  When I read, ‘academic freedom,’ I hear a very loud cluck.
  Jackson filled in the form as best he could and handed it back to the nurse, who looked over it with a cluck of disapproval.
  He made a noise which, had he been female, would have been instantly recognized as a sympathetic cluck.
  She tutted and clucked her tongue, shaking her head in accordance with the rhythm of her clucks.
  He gave a cluck of sorts and began the lesson.
  Margaret was temporarily silenced, but she still made displeased clucks as she looked her daughter over.
  Amidst grunts and clucks of disapproval, I managed to lose myself in the crowd.
  Gil, with a cluck of his tongue and a loud smack of his lips, seemed satisfied with this.
  Oscar descended upon him with reassuring clucks, all of which were duly ignored.
  I have perfected the art of the interested cluck during these kinds of conversations.
  ‘Thanks,’ he said but made no action to invite her in and with a cluck of her tongue she turned on her heels and began to walk away.
  With an exasperated cluck of his tongue he rushed to the shower, and got ready.
2North American informal A foolish person.
〈北美，非正式〉笨蛋；蠢人
Example sentencesExamples
- I have seen some of the responsible anti-war leaders try to distance themselves from such clucks, but not enough.
- Whether she intended to eventually marry the silly cluck or not, that wouldn't matter, because I just wouldn't like it.
Synonyms
idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

Origin

Late 15th century: imitative, corresponding to Danish klukke, Swedish klucka.

Rhymes

buck, Canuck, chuck, cruck, duck, luck, muck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck, yuck

Definition of cluck in US English:

cluck

(also cluck-cluck)

verbkləkklək

[no object]

1(of a hen) make a short, guttural sound.
（母鸡）咯咯叫
Example sentencesExamples
- She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level.
- The chickens clucked and scratched around his feet.
- There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
- Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain.
- The male clucks softly to the female it has chosen to be his mate, producing a sound similar to that made by females when calling to their young.
- There were the sounds of punching and kicking, objects being broken, grown-ups begging for mercy, children crying, chickens clucking, dogs yelping and pigs squealing.
- There were a number of carefully segregated piles of pipes, rusted auto parts, and other assorted items between which half a dozen scrawny chickens clucked and pecked their way through the dirt.
- When the road was clear, a few villagers ran out of their homes and onto the road, dogs barking and chickens clucking.
- The geese honked, and the hens hopped about clucking, as she giggled and ran after them.
- If they ask if my eggs are fresh, I'll waddle around and cluck like a chicken and say, ‘Hey, they don't get any fresher than this.’
- She made a face as she groped under the black hen, which glared and clucked at her but yielded a warm, brown egg.
- During one acting class, when the students were asked to pretend to be chickens under a falling atom bomb, everybody clucked frantically and raced around the room.
- Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws.
- Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
- He said he eats ‘anything that used to moo, cluck or oink - as long as it's cooked.’
- A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
- With that, he starts to do a strutting chicken walk, wafting his arms about and clucking and squawking to himself.
- As chickens cluck at our feet, he continues in his warm, soft voice: ‘They will never succeed in making me hate them.’
- Street wardens patrolling the area found the birds clucking and pecking around and thought they had escaped from the nearby School Farm.
- The chicken clucked once, and resumed her former position.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call
1. 1.1 (of a person) make a short, low sound with one's tongue to express concern or disapproval.
  （人表示关心或不满时以舌）发咯咯声，咂（舌）
  the bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically
  with object Michael clucked his tongue irritably
  卡迈克尔烦躁地咂着舌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Oh I know,’ she said, clucking sympathetically.
  Her mother, dressed in ski-pants, enters and clucks disapprovingly.
  I cluck my tongue at Carole, the way my grandmother clucks her tongue at me when I've said something utterly, wholly stupid.
  The maid clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes.
  My old therapist called it hyper-vigilance and clucked as she made notes about examples of the behavior in my daily life.
  I shook my head, feeling the urge to cluck my tongue in disapproval.
  Of course, conservatives will cluck cluck sadly and say that we're overreacting.
  For a moment, she was occupied with the task of scrutinizing everything in the parlor, clucking her tongue in disapproval.
  She clucked her tongue, apparently in disapproval, and turned away.
  So I declined his offer, letting him cluck in dismay.
  He clucked his tongue in a mock disapproving way.
  ‘That's no way to treat a lady, Eric,’ his mother scolded, clucking her tongue.
  She sighed frustratedly and clucked her tongue.
  The bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically.
  She clucked her tongue a couple of times, frowning slightly.
  The man clucked his tongue, as if he were feeling sorry for me, and moved forward to help me saddle the horse.
  She shook her head and clucked her tongue, as if she were disappointed in me.
  He pulled out his watch and clucked his tongue at the time.
  Despots die and their wars are read about in history books; we cluck our tongues, shake our heads and wonder at their evil.
  Throughout the showing of the film, we were bombarded with audience members around us clucking their tongues and making other sympathetic noises.
  I'd toss out a topic and he'd cluck his tongue and point out ways my idea could be offensive and controversial.
2. 1.2cluck over/at/aboutno object Express fussy concern about.
  唠叨（表示关心）
  they were cluck-clucking over the dishonor he brought to the office
  Example sentencesExamples
  She found herself again in sick bay, the doctor clucking over her in dismay.
  The documentary was unremarkable until the worthy journalist stopped to cluck over a small girl at a festival of some kind.
  I grumble as we make our way outside the hall where young women were clucking around, fixing every semi-finalist model's hair, make-up, dress etc.
  He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
  As soon as he asks the checkout assistant, three more of them appear and start clucking around.
  Right now, however, her sponsors and management plot her future, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow.
  The departure of Elisabeth was like the departure of a mother; she had been the old hen of the group, clucking over everybody and their goings-on with men, while never having one herself.
  She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
  He says she is ‘cute’ and recalls how she spent time clucking over the daughters of both her friends at the wedding last year.
  Matrons in gem-hued gowns were clucking over the other debutantes.
  In every gift shop, there are more cute infants to cluck over.
  My mother is clucking over me again, trying to flatten my hair by licking her hands and pressing them down on my head.
  My hand was swollen and still bled every time the bandages came off, and my companions clucked over it every evening when they tried their best to clean it.
  He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’

nounkləkklək

1The characteristic short, guttural sound made by a hen.
（母鸡的）咯咯叫声
Example sentencesExamples
- When I reached the gate, I heard happy moos and clucks from the chickens and cows.
- But for the rest of us, the meaning behind creatures' clucks, rumbles, and whistles remains a mystery.
- Farmers usually keep farm animals to supplement their income, but a visitor to this farm will not hear clucks or moos.
- A chorus of clucks answered the maiden when the door was opened.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call
1. 1.1 A short, guttural sound made by a person to express concern or disapproval.
  （人表示烦恼的）咕哝声
  Loretta gave a cluck of impatience
  洛雷塔发出不耐烦的咕哝声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oscar descended upon him with reassuring clucks, all of which were duly ignored.
  Jackson filled in the form as best he could and handed it back to the nurse, who looked over it with a cluck of disapproval.
  ‘Thanks,’ he said but made no action to invite her in and with a cluck of her tongue she turned on her heels and began to walk away.
  Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
  With an exasperated cluck of his tongue he rushed to the shower, and got ready.
  She tutted and clucked her tongue, shaking her head in accordance with the rhythm of her clucks.
  Amidst grunts and clucks of disapproval, I managed to lose myself in the crowd.
  He gave a cluck of sorts and began the lesson.
  Gil, with a cluck of his tongue and a loud smack of his lips, seemed satisfied with this.
  When I read, ‘academic freedom,’ I hear a very loud cluck.
  I have perfected the art of the interested cluck during these kinds of conversations.
  He made a noise which, had he been female, would have been instantly recognized as a sympathetic cluck.
  Margaret was temporarily silenced, but she still made displeased clucks as she looked her daughter over.
2North American informal A stupid or foolish person.
〈北美，非正式〉笨蛋；蠢人
a cluck too lazy to put up a clothesline
Example sentencesExamples
- Whether she intended to eventually marry the silly cluck or not, that wouldn't matter, because I just wouldn't like it.
- I have seen some of the responsible anti-war leaders try to distance themselves from such clucks, but not enough.
Synonyms
idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

Origin

Late 15th century: imitative, corresponding to Danish klukke, Swedish klucka.

词汇	cluck
释义	Definition of cluck in English: cluck verb klʌkklək [no object] 1(of a hen) make a short, low sound. （母鸡）咯咯叫 the chickens clucked and scratched in the dirt Example sentencesExamples There were a number of carefully segregated piles of pipes, rusted auto parts, and other assorted items between which half a dozen scrawny chickens clucked and pecked their way through the dirt. When the road was clear, a few villagers ran out of their homes and onto the road, dogs barking and chickens clucking. There were the sounds of punching and kicking, objects being broken, grown-ups begging for mercy, children crying, chickens clucking, dogs yelping and pigs squealing. A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly. The chicken clucked once, and resumed her former position. If they ask if my eggs are fresh, I'll waddle around and cluck like a chicken and say, ‘Hey, they don't get any fresher than this.’ She made a face as she groped under the black hen, which glared and clucked at her but yielded a warm, brown egg. The geese honked, and the hens hopped about clucking, as she giggled and ran after them. Street wardens patrolling the area found the birds clucking and pecking around and thought they had escaped from the nearby School Farm. There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground. He said he eats ‘anything that used to moo, cluck or oink - as long as it's cooked.’ Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain. During one acting class, when the students were asked to pretend to be chickens under a falling atom bomb, everybody clucked frantically and raced around the room. Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws. The chickens clucked and scratched around his feet. As chickens cluck at our feet, he continues in his warm, soft voice: ‘They will never succeed in making me hate them.’ The male clucks softly to the female it has chosen to be his mate, producing a sound similar to that made by females when calling to their young. With that, he starts to do a strutting chicken walk, wafting his arms about and clucking and squawking to himself. She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level. Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call 1.1 (of a person) make a short, low sound with one's tongue to express concern or disapproval. （人表示关心或不满时以舌）发咯咯声，咂（舌） the bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically with object Carmichael clucked his tongue irritably 卡迈克尔烦躁地咂着舌。 Example sentencesExamples For a moment, she was occupied with the task of scrutinizing everything in the parlor, clucking her tongue in disapproval. She clucked her tongue, apparently in disapproval, and turned away. The man clucked his tongue, as if he were feeling sorry for me, and moved forward to help me saddle the horse. She clucked her tongue a couple of times, frowning slightly. Of course, conservatives will cluck cluck sadly and say that we're overreacting. The maid clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes. He clucked his tongue in a mock disapproving way. He pulled out his watch and clucked his tongue at the time. I'd toss out a topic and he'd cluck his tongue and point out ways my idea could be offensive and controversial. I cluck my tongue at Carole, the way my grandmother clucks her tongue at me when I've said something utterly, wholly stupid. ‘That's no way to treat a lady, Eric,’ his mother scolded, clucking her tongue. Throughout the showing of the film, we were bombarded with audience members around us clucking their tongues and making other sympathetic noises. She sighed frustratedly and clucked her tongue. I shook my head, feeling the urge to cluck my tongue in disapproval. The bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically. ‘Oh I know,’ she said, clucking sympathetically. She shook her head and clucked her tongue, as if she were disappointed in me. My old therapist called it hyper-vigilance and clucked as she made notes about examples of the behavior in my daily life. Her mother, dressed in ski-pants, enters and clucks disapprovingly. So I declined his offer, letting him cluck in dismay. Despots die and their wars are read about in history books; we cluck our tongues, shake our heads and wonder at their evil. 1.2cluck over/aroundno object Express fussy concern about. 唠叨（表示关心） Pauline became worried about her health and constantly clucked over her 波林担心起她的健康，不停对她唠叨。 Example sentencesExamples He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks. Matrons in gem-hued gowns were clucking over the other debutantes. He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’ She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen. My hand was swollen and still bled every time the bandages came off, and my companions clucked over it every evening when they tried their best to clean it. He says she is ‘cute’ and recalls how she spent time clucking over the daughters of both her friends at the wedding last year. The documentary was unremarkable until the worthy journalist stopped to cluck over a small girl at a festival of some kind. I grumble as we make our way outside the hall where young women were clucking around, fixing every semi-finalist model's hair, make-up, dress etc. The departure of Elisabeth was like the departure of a mother; she had been the old hen of the group, clucking over everybody and their goings-on with men, while never having one herself. As soon as he asks the checkout assistant, three more of them appear and start clucking around. My mother is clucking over me again, trying to flatten my hair by licking her hands and pressing them down on my head. She found herself again in sick bay, the doctor clucking over her in dismay. In every gift shop, there are more cute infants to cluck over. Right now, however, her sponsors and management plot her future, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow. noun klʌkklək 1The short, low sound made by a hen. （母鸡的）咯咯叫声 Example sentencesExamples A chorus of clucks answered the maiden when the door was opened. When I reached the gate, I heard happy moos and clucks from the chickens and cows. Farmers usually keep farm animals to supplement their income, but a visitor to this farm will not hear clucks or moos. But for the rest of us, the meaning behind creatures' clucks, rumbles, and whistles remains a mystery. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call 1.1 A short, low sound made by a person to express concern or disapproval. （人表示烦恼的）咕哝声 Loretta gave a cluck of impatience 洛雷塔发出不耐烦的咕哝声。 Example sentencesExamples Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks. When I read, ‘academic freedom,’ I hear a very loud cluck. Jackson filled in the form as best he could and handed it back to the nurse, who looked over it with a cluck of disapproval. He made a noise which, had he been female, would have been instantly recognized as a sympathetic cluck. She tutted and clucked her tongue, shaking her head in accordance with the rhythm of her clucks. He gave a cluck of sorts and began the lesson. Margaret was temporarily silenced, but she still made displeased clucks as she looked her daughter over. Amidst grunts and clucks of disapproval, I managed to lose myself in the crowd. Gil, with a cluck of his tongue and a loud smack of his lips, seemed satisfied with this. Oscar descended upon him with reassuring clucks, all of which were duly ignored. I have perfected the art of the interested cluck during these kinds of conversations. ‘Thanks,’ he said but made no action to invite her in and with a cluck of her tongue she turned on her heels and began to walk away. With an exasperated cluck of his tongue he rushed to the shower, and got ready. 2North American informal A foolish person. 〈北美，非正式〉笨蛋；蠢人 Example sentencesExamples I have seen some of the responsible anti-war leaders try to distance themselves from such clucks, but not enough. Whether she intended to eventually marry the silly cluck or not, that wouldn't matter, because I just wouldn't like it. Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod Origin Late 15th century: imitative, corresponding to Danish klukke, Swedish klucka. Rhymes buck, Canuck, chuck, cruck, duck, luck, muck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck, yuck Definition of cluck in US English: cluck (also cluck-cluck) verbkləkklək [no object] 1(of a hen) make a short, guttural sound. （母鸡）咯咯叫 Example sentencesExamples She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level. The chickens clucked and scratched around his feet. There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground. Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain. The male clucks softly to the female it has chosen to be his mate, producing a sound similar to that made by females when calling to their young. There were the sounds of punching and kicking, objects being broken, grown-ups begging for mercy, children crying, chickens clucking, dogs yelping and pigs squealing. There were a number of carefully segregated piles of pipes, rusted auto parts, and other assorted items between which half a dozen scrawny chickens clucked and pecked their way through the dirt. When the road was clear, a few villagers ran out of their homes and onto the road, dogs barking and chickens clucking. The geese honked, and the hens hopped about clucking, as she giggled and ran after them. If they ask if my eggs are fresh, I'll waddle around and cluck like a chicken and say, ‘Hey, they don't get any fresher than this.’ She made a face as she groped under the black hen, which glared and clucked at her but yielded a warm, brown egg. During one acting class, when the students were asked to pretend to be chickens under a falling atom bomb, everybody clucked frantically and raced around the room. Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws. Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes. He said he eats ‘anything that used to moo, cluck or oink - as long as it's cooked.’ A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly. With that, he starts to do a strutting chicken walk, wafting his arms about and clucking and squawking to himself. As chickens cluck at our feet, he continues in his warm, soft voice: ‘They will never succeed in making me hate them.’ Street wardens patrolling the area found the birds clucking and pecking around and thought they had escaped from the nearby School Farm. The chicken clucked once, and resumed her former position. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call 1.1 (of a person) make a short, low sound with one's tongue to express concern or disapproval. （人表示关心或不满时以舌）发咯咯声，咂（舌） the bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically with object Michael clucked his tongue irritably 卡迈克尔烦躁地咂着舌。 Example sentencesExamples ‘Oh I know,’ she said, clucking sympathetically. Her mother, dressed in ski-pants, enters and clucks disapprovingly. I cluck my tongue at Carole, the way my grandmother clucks her tongue at me when I've said something utterly, wholly stupid. The maid clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes. My old therapist called it hyper-vigilance and clucked as she made notes about examples of the behavior in my daily life. I shook my head, feeling the urge to cluck my tongue in disapproval. Of course, conservatives will cluck cluck sadly and say that we're overreacting. For a moment, she was occupied with the task of scrutinizing everything in the parlor, clucking her tongue in disapproval. She clucked her tongue, apparently in disapproval, and turned away. So I declined his offer, letting him cluck in dismay. He clucked his tongue in a mock disapproving way. ‘That's no way to treat a lady, Eric,’ his mother scolded, clucking her tongue. She sighed frustratedly and clucked her tongue. The bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically. She clucked her tongue a couple of times, frowning slightly. The man clucked his tongue, as if he were feeling sorry for me, and moved forward to help me saddle the horse. She shook her head and clucked her tongue, as if she were disappointed in me. He pulled out his watch and clucked his tongue at the time. Despots die and their wars are read about in history books; we cluck our tongues, shake our heads and wonder at their evil. Throughout the showing of the film, we were bombarded with audience members around us clucking their tongues and making other sympathetic noises. I'd toss out a topic and he'd cluck his tongue and point out ways my idea could be offensive and controversial. 1.2cluck over/at/aboutno object Express fussy concern about. 唠叨（表示关心） they were cluck-clucking over the dishonor he brought to the office Example sentencesExamples She found herself again in sick bay, the doctor clucking over her in dismay. The documentary was unremarkable until the worthy journalist stopped to cluck over a small girl at a festival of some kind. I grumble as we make our way outside the hall where young women were clucking around, fixing every semi-finalist model's hair, make-up, dress etc. He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks. As soon as he asks the checkout assistant, three more of them appear and start clucking around. Right now, however, her sponsors and management plot her future, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow. The departure of Elisabeth was like the departure of a mother; she had been the old hen of the group, clucking over everybody and their goings-on with men, while never having one herself. She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen. He says she is ‘cute’ and recalls how she spent time clucking over the daughters of both her friends at the wedding last year. Matrons in gem-hued gowns were clucking over the other debutantes. In every gift shop, there are more cute infants to cluck over. My mother is clucking over me again, trying to flatten my hair by licking her hands and pressing them down on my head. My hand was swollen and still bled every time the bandages came off, and my companions clucked over it every evening when they tried their best to clean it. He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’ nounkləkklək 1The characteristic short, guttural sound made by a hen. （母鸡的）咯咯叫声 Example sentencesExamples When I reached the gate, I heard happy moos and clucks from the chickens and cows. But for the rest of us, the meaning behind creatures' clucks, rumbles, and whistles remains a mystery. Farmers usually keep farm animals to supplement their income, but a visitor to this farm will not hear clucks or moos. A chorus of clucks answered the maiden when the door was opened. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call 1.1 A short, guttural sound made by a person to express concern or disapproval. （人表示烦恼的）咕哝声 Loretta gave a cluck of impatience 洛雷塔发出不耐烦的咕哝声。 Example sentencesExamples Oscar descended upon him with reassuring clucks, all of which were duly ignored. Jackson filled in the form as best he could and handed it back to the nurse, who looked over it with a cluck of disapproval. ‘Thanks,’ he said but made no action to invite her in and with a cluck of her tongue she turned on her heels and began to walk away. Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks. With an exasperated cluck of his tongue he rushed to the shower, and got ready. She tutted and clucked her tongue, shaking her head in accordance with the rhythm of her clucks. Amidst grunts and clucks of disapproval, I managed to lose myself in the crowd. He gave a cluck of sorts and began the lesson. Gil, with a cluck of his tongue and a loud smack of his lips, seemed satisfied with this. When I read, ‘academic freedom,’ I hear a very loud cluck. I have perfected the art of the interested cluck during these kinds of conversations. He made a noise which, had he been female, would have been instantly recognized as a sympathetic cluck. Margaret was temporarily silenced, but she still made displeased clucks as she looked her daughter over. 2North American informal A stupid or foolish person. 〈北美，非正式〉笨蛋；蠢人 a cluck too lazy to put up a clothesline Example sentencesExamples Whether she intended to eventually marry the silly cluck or not, that wouldn't matter, because I just wouldn't like it. I have seen some of the responsible anti-war leaders try to distance themselves from such clucks, but not enough. Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod Origin Late 15th century: imitative, corresponding to Danish klukke, Swedish klucka.
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