cluck, clucking
(noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
clucking
present participle of cluck
clucking (plural cluckings)
The action of the verb cluck; a cluck sound.
clucking (not comparable)
(slang, euphemism) fucking (as intensifier)
That clucking bastard!
Source: Wiktionary
Cluck"ing, n.
Definition: The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Cluck, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clucked; p pr. & vb. n. Clucking.] Etym: [AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken, G. glucken, glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative origin.]
Definition: To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray.
Cluck, v. t.
Definition: To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. Shak.
Cluck, n.
1. The call of a hen to her chickens.
2. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 November 2024
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
