clucking+hen

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• clucking hen —  a hen desirous of sitting to hatch her eggs. N …   A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

• Clucking — Cluck ing, n. The noise or call of a brooding hen. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• hen — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ battery, free range (esp. BrE) ▪ mother ▪ She fussed around like a mother hen. ▪ broody ▪ laying …   Collocations dictionary

• Clucking — 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• clucking — klÊŒk n. sound uttered by a hen, cackle v. make a noise like a hen, make a clicking sound with the tongue …   English contemporary dictionary

• clucking — noun the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) • Syn: ↑cluck • Derivationally related forms: ↑cluck (for: ↑cluck) • Hypernyms: ↑cry …   Useful english dictionary

• glucke — ˈglu̇kə noun also gluck k ( s) Etymology: German glucke, literally, clucking hen, of imitative origin : a roller canary tour suggestive of a hen s clucking …   Useful english dictionary

• cluck, you dumb —    Used mainly in American rather than British speech to refer to a stupid person. ‘Cluck’ has that meaning on its own, but ‘dumb cluck’ is very much a standard phrase. The form of the word suggests that it is linked with a clucking hen, but it… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• cluck — I [[t]klʌk[/t]] v. i. 1) anb to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks 2) to make a similar sound, esp. one expressing concern, approval, etc 3) to call by clucking 4) to express by clucking 5) anb the sound uttered by a hen when… …   From formal English to slang

• cluck — /klʌk / (say kluk) verb (i) 1. to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks. 2. to make a similar sound. –verb (t) 3. to call or utter by clucking: clucking his sympathy. –noun 4. the sound uttered by a hen when brooding, or in… …  

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