clucked; clucking; clucks
1
: to make a cluck
2
: to make a clicking sound with the tongue
3
: to express interest or concern
critics clucked over the new developments
1
: the characteristic sound made by a hen especially in calling her chicks
2
: a stupid or naive person
a dumb cluck
Examples of cluck in a Sentence
Verb
The hen clucked at her chicks.
The driver clucked at the horses to get them moving.
Commentators have been clucking over his lack of experience.
Noun
Don't be such a dumb cluck.
stuck with a bunch of clucks on an extended bus tour
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
At worst, friends who saw the post might have clucked at my show of poor taste in the face of tragedy and then moved on with their lives.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
This leads us to the crux...or perhaps the clucks...of my story.
—Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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Verb
Unexpectedly, a character who seemed to be a stock figure — the dowdy matron, clucking over the girls in her charge — emerges as someone much richer and better, raising the show along with her.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
At worst, friends who saw the post might have clucked at my show of poor taste in the face of tragedy and then moved on with their lives.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
The only non-aquatic industries are a nearby watermelon farm and the occasional cluck and snuffle of chickens and pigs.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
This leads us to the crux...or perhaps the clucks...of my story.
—Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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“Cluck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cluck. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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