The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clucking \Cluck"ing\, n. The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Cluck \Cluck\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clucked; p pr. & vb. n.
Clucking.] [AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken, G. glucken,
glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative
origin.]
To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
--Ray.
Wiktionary
n. The action of the verb cluck. vb. (present participle of cluck English)
Usage examples of "clucking".
An ancient nun came from the convent to spread a soothing ointment over his skin, all the while clucking her tongue.
There were letters from Cicero, squawking and clucking about the welfare of his younger brother, Quintus.
He watched the goddess move from horse to horse, clucking and murmuring and whispering strange endearments to each of them.
Several years ago he had gone on a tour of Ethiopia with a clucking band of international future-seers and watched their calculus collide with life.
Perched up on the boards she held the reins loosely between her fingers, clucking for the horses to move on, then flicked a whip across their backs.
Miss Holly was hovering in the background supervising the departure, clucking with admiration at the spotless kitchen, thanking them for the gifts of food covered with cling film and neatly stacked in the hotel refrigerator.
He suffered the wheel and blackout of the ribbands that encircled his head, the electronic cluckings of the little plates that sucked against his temples.
He suffered the wheel and blackout of the ribbands that encircled his head, the electronic cluckings of the little plates that sucked against his temples.
An instant later Taran heard a loud clucking and squawking from the chicken run.
Frowning, Micah obeyed, clucking and thumping his heels to aim the horse for the barbarian camp.
He listened to the sounds it made, the cluckings and the tickings, the whines and the creaks.