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Meanings of clucking in English

Spanish
clo

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

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Usage of clucking in English
1
This attracted further opprobrium, with someone clucking 'disgraceful' as he passed them.
The street philosopher
2
No answer from the chickens, gathered across the wire, waiting, clucking, scratching.
Crooked letter, crooked letter
3
Now and then the clucking of hens is heard under the windows.
Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
4
She heard Winston crowing in the barn, and heard his hens clucking.
Rose in a storm
5
Nowadays, courtiers slightly modify their intonation in clucking to please their masters.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
6
A hen clucking to her chicks went across the road before him.
Hillsboro People
7
And clucking to his horses, Ned drove on to the wagon shed.
Comrades of the Saddle; Or, The Young Rough Riders of the Plains
8
This one looked out upon a small woodshed and two clucking hens.
Four Meetings
9
He was silent, while his listener made a clucking noise of astonishment.
Hillsboro People
10
Pheasant-coops were lying about, some occupied by a clucking hen, some empty.
The Prussian Officer
11
Animals scurried in all directions, clucking and squawking and beating their wings.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
12
Ella kept clucking nervously, fidgeting with her hair, her jewelry, her fork.
Wicked
13
Claudine had entered the broken storeroom and stood there clucking her tongue.
All souls' rising
14
They were too busy clucking in sympathy over poor Ian's terrible plight.
The devil wears plaid
15
From the outside came the faint clucking of hens in the warm sun.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
16
A moment later she heard Mrs. Goodrich behind her, clucking worriedly.
The blackstone chronicles
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Translations for clucking
Spanish
clo
Clucking through the time
Clucking across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common