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    1. “Cluck cluck cluck,” said the chicken


    2. “That’s because cluck I’m talking cluck to you in cluck chicken,” said the chicken


    3. “Listen cluck carefully, and you can cluck understand me if you cluck ignore the clucks


    4. “I’m cluck Edwin cluck,” said the chicken


    5. I told you to ignore the clucks cluck


    6. “Was that last ‘cluck’ a word, or just a cluck?”


    7. Hah! Cluck! Hah! Cluck cluck!” Edwin laughed so much that he started clucking again, and flapping his little wings


    8. Before Edwin could emit a startled cluck, he was pulled backwards


    9. Edwin gasped, but it came out as a cluck


    10. ’ With one last cluck of irritation he led the way through to his study

    11. The cash register started to cluck as he ran his stubby fingers over the numbers


    12. Some of my crazier co-workers headed to this part of the store and while the consumers were checking out the chickens, they would cluck like those fowl


    13. That made the young Duchess of Montpensier cluck


    14. When the horse is moving with energy in the lane toward the jump, attach a verbal speed-up signal to this action, either a cluck, a click or a smooch


    15. The old hen said, "Cluck, cluck!


    16. "Cluck, cluck!" said she


    17. cluck, Crutchins had his team rolling away from him


    18. Cole's cluck that she was left with only me, like a hen with one chicken; but though she was earnestly entreated and encouraged to recruit her crops, her growing infirmities, and, above all, the tortures, of a stubborn hip gout, which she found would yield to no remedy, determined her to break up her business, and retire with a decent pittance into the country, where I promised myself, nothing so sure, as my going down to live with her, as soon as I had seen a little more of life, and improved my small matters into a competency that would create in me an independence on the world: for I was now, thanks to Mrs


    19. The only reply that he could hear for a little while was the smack of the horse's hoofs on the moistening road, and the cluck of the milk in the cans behind them


    1. They tutted and clucked, pressing their tongues against their cheeks, sucked in their breath and made notes on their judge’s pads


    2. ' He clucked at the goats and they followed him onto the plateau


    3. The three of them, Yellelle, Imada and the seamstress clucked and cooed and made her pose in several ways


    4. They tutted and clucked, pressing their tongues against


    5. His mother had clucked over him for what seemed like an hour reassuring herself: 'had he remembered his extra socks, his rain poncho, his hat, his


    6. From there, he clucked on in defeat, nursing his pride from behind the wire fence, ducking his head with respect, and granting me this glorious victory


    7. She clucked and said that she’d see what she could do, and hung up


    8. After the sixth day, when the Lord was resting, he looked at his handiwork, and turned to the rabbi and asked, ‘Well, Rabbi, what do you think? Are you optimistic or pessimistic?’ The rabbi hesitated, frowned deeply, shook his head and clucked his tongue and finally said to the Lord, ‘Well, I’m optimistic


    9. Jacoba clucked appreciably as he rolled up his sleeves and leaned in to study the piles of gold and silver baubles and chains


    10. The chickens had gathered on a small patch of clear ground, and clucked expectantly as Zach heaved a bucket towards them through the maze of rubbish

    11. “Thought this was a free for all, eh?’ The plump speckled hen clucked disdainfully


    12. “But you must,” clucked Chardonnay


    13. Still peering through the knothole, Edwin clucked again


    14. “Fowl play?” Edwin clucked indignantly


    15. “Yes,” he clucked


    16. “Then who’s behind this?” clucked Edwin


    17. “I’m sorry,” he clucked at Stubby


    18. Edwin clucked with relief as he felt himself sliding away from the chute


    19. Edwin clucked something, but Bryony couldn’t make out the clucks because his beak was clenched around Zach’s nose


    20. “We try to keep it interesting,” clucked Edwin

    21. “But where did it come from?” clucked Edwin


    22. Oh!, Grandpa Gennaro, if you could see us …! We have an eclectic and a singular family now! Sure you must be laughing there in the heights of the heavens while tasting your celestial blood sausages! Filomena in reciprocity to our affections clucked hers for the dusty paths of the basement with much calmness and without many emotions


    23. The hair on Sam‘s neck stood as he clucked to JY and quickened their pace through the green morass


    24. Carter clucked his tongue and squeezed the door


    25. Vinny clucked his tongue and tried to think back


    26. Everyone in the audience clucked in awe that the mammal could speak


    27. Father clucked crossly at his side, worried that she would talk him round


    28. The old woman pushing the cart bent down, gently hefted the infant into her arms, and clucked her tongue to pacify the startled little child


    29. Barnes clucked with his tongue, the closest Silas ever heard him come to a laugh


    30. Emory clucked his tongue, sat her in a chair, and gently took her hand

    31. As the sound of horses and men gave way to crickets, creek and owls, Emory clucked to the stallion, picked up the reins and led him away from Marshall’s moaning body


    32. “Has your father told you nothing? Worthless man,” she clucked, then bellowed, “Bring him!”


    33. Jerry clucked his tongue, shaking his head


    34. clucked to his team


    35. He clucked to his ride and they left at an


    36. She clucked her tongue, and Kate heard her say, “I just knew I should have worn red today


    37. clucked and cackled and would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into


    38. Then the sun reappeared, the hens clucked, sparrows shook their wings in the damp thickets, and the pools of water on the gravel as they flowed away carried off the pink flowers of an acacia


    39. Some were laughing, some shouting, some were calling out; others clapped their hands, or whistled, or clucked like a hen who has just laid an


    40. A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid

    41. It had grown darker, and we watched as the chickens clucked their way indignantly into their coop


    42. Rhett clucked to the mare


    43. He threw his battered straw hat into the back of the wagon, clucked to the horse and they moved off


    44. As she drew near the path that led down through the bare trees into the creek bottom where the Shantytown settlement was, she clucked to the horse to quicken his speed


    45. ) A passing homosexual in tiny shorts clucked and shook his head at the pair of them, the poor lost children, and Charlie couldn’t help making a wisecrack, as if Mickey Sullivan was still around


    46. Her father clucked about it and read aloud an editorial about recent misbehavior on campus, but he was attached as only an immigrant with a doctorate can be to the idea of public education, and he knew it was the best school in the system


    47. “I suppose that’s why I appear to have shied from manhood, as I’m sure you’ve all privately clucked over


    48. The nun clucked her tongue softly


    49. Hassan clucked his tongue and tipped his chin


    50. Nicholas gave the horses the rein, and Zakhar, stretching out his arms, clucked his tongue







    1. She was the queen of the chicken run with a bevy of hens and cocks clucking around her, hanging on her every insight and word


    2. chicken run with a bevy of hens and cocks clucking around her,


    3. ” but the clucking of the chickens drowned her out


    4. They went into a frenzy of clucking and squawking


    5. She was laid down on the bed, and Anne was leaning over her, clucking at her in weary acceptance


    6. By now I was so drunk that I was staggering around the kitchen, clutching a half-burnt, one legged chicken, making clucking noises between fits of the giggles


    7. sounds of chickens clucking and from deep within, a rooster


    8. The clucking reached an excited crescendo as the chickens surged forwards, pecking ravenously at the fallen grains


    9. Edwin heard the other chickens clucking in amusement


    10. That news set off a chorus of nervous clucking, and Chardonnay led the brood out of the farmyard

    11. “I was just clucking


    12. Hah! Cluck! Hah! Cluck cluck!” Edwin laughed so much that he started clucking again, and flapping his little wings


    13. Then he couldn’t stop clucking and flapping


    14. He was having some sort of clucking and flapping fit…


    15. “Jack Dawes,” said Captain Rathbone, before Edwin could transform his startled clucking into words


    16. “Keep the clucking down,” whispered Stubby


    17. “You were clucking quite a bit,” said Stubby


    18. There was a clucking sound, and Zach turned to see a flock of chickens running excitedly around the yard, led by a plump speckled hen


    19. Alana made a clucking noise and Zoe immediately hated the way it sounded


    20. Another second or two and we’d have had her in a trance, clucking like a chicken

    21. Although Palomita had picked a "table" where no one else was currently dining, she soon had a crowd of fluttering, clucking hens, some with chicks, clustered together in front of her and watching her almost suck in seeds in a stream, so quickly was she eating


    22. With all the clucking going on, and with the rooster still crowing as well, Palomita and Squirrel Girl had both opened their eyes


    23. They said they started crowing and clucking and bawling and squealing not out of fear of the snakes (although Palomita said she had seen their eyes rolling in their heads with fear), but because the crows had come to tell them they had been tricked and now would not have food when winter came


    24. clucking, and then, one by one at first, then in twos and threes they flew up


    25. clucking over him, whispering “It’s a miracle that the man is still alive


    26. The animals of the barnyard were alive with mirth and merriment, a few just as ornery as the day they were born, clucking, oinking, and bellowing, all hungry like they had never been fed


    27. would enter the room clucking like a chicken


    28. “Oh, ye, of little faith,” Lester said, clucking ‘tsk, tsk, tsk


    29. “You saved my life and this is how you are repaid,” Ket said, clucking and


    30. Male voices were crowing like cockerels and girls were clucking like hens

    31. Frau Dosch seized the bundle, and with clucking sounds jerked it up and down between the faces of the parents so that its mother's eyes must needs fall upon it


    32. of roosters running around the road, clucking, pecking, and


    33. The dogs in the yard were given bones to chew and the chickens were happy in the early morning sunshine clucking and eating grain


    34. Near the corn-machines clucking hens passed their necks through the bars of flat cages


    35. I must clean the keys of the piano with milk whatll I wear shall I wear a white rose or those fairy cakes in Liptons I love the smell of a rich big shop at 7 1/2d a lb or the other ones with the cherries in them and the pinky sugar I Id a couple of lbs of those a nice plant for the middle of the table Id get that cheaper in wait wheres this I saw them not long ago I love flowers Id love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing then the beautiful country with the fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things and all the fine cattle going about that would do your heart good to see rivers and lakes and flowers all sorts of shapes and smells and colours springing up even out of the ditches primroses and violets nature it is as for them saying theres no God I wouldnt give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why dont they go and create something I often asked him atheists or whatever they call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first then they go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because theyre afraid of hell on account of their bad conscience ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all who ah that they dont know neither do I so there you are they might as well try to stop the sun from rising tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didnt know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry in front of the governors house with the thing round his white helmet poor devil half roasted and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their tall combs and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the jews and the Arabs and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and Duke street and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharons and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts of the bulls and the old castle thousands of years old yes and those handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the posadas 2 glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red


    36. faint clucking of hens in the warm sun


    37. and give them roses and ribbons and tell them how you’d die for the Cause, and when it “You little fraud,” he said, clucking to the horse


    38. As he fussed over her, clucking like a hen, she gave herself up to the luxury of being was only that old maid in pants, Frank Kennedy


    39. It was nice to have a man fussing and clucking and scolding, even if it brutal treatment


    40. Although the road was busy with cabs and carriages, the snow muffled the sound, and the only thing he could hear clearly was the clucking of water under the drain beside him

    41. But I am becoming a bit of a mother hen, clucking over my chick, feathers ruffled, all out of sorts


    42. In June the partridge (Tetrao umbellus), which is so shy a bird, led her brood past my windows, from the woods in the rear to the front of my house, clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods


    43. They only utter a clucking sound with their tongues and sigh mournfully, knowing that they will see no more of the steady lads they have reared and trained to help them, that they will come back not the same quiet hard-working laborers, but for the most part conceited and demoralized, unfitted for their simple life


    1. Wiesse clucks to himself fussily, completely missing the glow in Gilla’s eyes


    2. Billy listens as Carol coos and clucks


    3. “Listen cluck carefully, and you can cluck understand me if you cluck ignore the clucks


    4. I told you to ignore the clucks cluck


    5. “Ignore the clucks,” repeated the chicken


    6. Edwin clucked something, but Bryony couldn’t make out the clucks because his beak was clenched around Zach’s nose


    7. A series of small clucks is usually a sign of contentment


    8. “Ah,” he clucks with mock sympathy, “because it’s not fair


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    Synonyms for "cluck"

    cluck clucking clack click crow quack gabble

    "cluck" definitions

    the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)


    make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens