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clucking

[ UK /klˈʌkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫəkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)

How To Use clucking In A Sentence

  • She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
  • He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
  • He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
  • One of the ambulance men leant over the body, clucking his tongue with a disapproving `tsk, tsk ". A DEATH IN TIME
  • The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs.
  • Then, one day, a lovely sunny day with great tufts of primroses under the hazels, and many violets dotting the paths, she came in the afternoon to the coops and there was one tiny, tiny perky chicken tinily prancing round in front of a coop, and the mother hen clucking in terror. Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • Clucking the tongue is a good example, but there are plenty of others - kissing, spitting or slurping noises, for example, or naturalistic imitations of animal sounds.
  • But as they grew, they took to following me everywhere, first cheeping like the tinkling of little bells, later clucking in animated adult discussion. Birdology
  • A Krosan dragonette," Chainer said, clucking his tongue. Odyssey
  • The banjo is played in the more rhythmic "clawhammer" style, which has a sound not dissimilar from a chicken clucking. Phawker
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