cluck

Meanings

Plural: clucks

Noun

the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
Any sound similar to this.
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
A setting hen.

Verb

make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

chuck, clack, click, clucking

Scrabble Score: 13

cluck is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
cluck is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cluck is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

cluck is a valid Words With Friends word