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Cluck


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
  • (v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
  • (n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
  • (n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I cannot tell you how I should deprecate anything leading to the publication of these letters," she clucked to her publisher.
  • (2) Partial separation from chicks causes a significant decline of the clucking rate in hens, this response however does not disappear as in the case of total separation.
  • (3) Britain and America make clucking noises but are just as cynical as the Bahraini royal family itself.
  • (4) Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat box and fitted in with government healthy eating advice to "base your meals on starchy foods".
  • (5) Let me ask the right honourable gentleman again: why is he so chicken when it comes to the Greens?” This inevitably provoked a chorus of clucks from the Labour benches as Miliband said it was Cameron who was running scared.
  • (6) "They might not be bitches at all – they might just have faces that look bitchy," one of the films several narrators clucks sympathetically.
  • (7) Newly hatched domestic chicks learned to prefer the object bearing the same visual characteristics as the environment associated to the initially preferred clucking sound.
  • (8) That's all done centrally…") then, as days turned to weeks, then months, to a succession of customer complaints people who all clucked and expressed sympathy before saying things like: "moving forward…" and telling me that they hadn't a clue when the bank would get down to dealing with my request.
  • (9) Then all chicks were individually exposed to two alternating optical stimulus situations of equal length, each of which was accompanied by one of the clucking sounds.
  • (10) Half a dozen mud and grass-thatched houses circle an ever-changing cast of clucking hens, goats and children.
  • (11) Barring catastrophic medical reports on Susan Boyle, Britain's Got Talent will undoubtedly continue next year because, brutally, 20 million viewers will always trump a few clucking columnists.
  • (12) He had now become a rightwing figure, cluckingly approved of by Conservatives.
  • (13) This helps explain why I found Labour’s opposition over the past five years so woeful, watching as they scrabbled about like so many clucking hens, trying to cobble together a response to Tory austerity.
  • (14) Subsequently, in an exclusively visual choice situation, the chicks chose the stimulus that had been associated with the preferred clucking sound.
  • (15) Jeremy is not going to ban meat A rare vegetarian in politics, Corbyn raised concerned bleats and clucks from the livestock sector when he appointed an even rarer political vegan to the farming brief.
  • (16) In 2010, Komen decided to partner with Kentucky Fried Chicken, sparking a "what the cluck" campaign against it by Breast Cancer Action, an education advocacy group.
  • (17) He laughs almost constantly; a high guttural clucking, punctuated by long pauses and apologies and puffs on a breakfast cigarette.
  • (18) Domestic chicks chose after prenatal exposure between two different clucking sounds by running towards one loudspeaker and settling there.
  • (19) The "intelligent, gentlemanlike" practitioner is a kind of therapist, whose business is humouring his clucking patients.
  • (20) Because of our low turnover, and the fact that people are really into their jobs, $15 an hour wasn’t a big stretch,” Brian Parker, co-founder of Moo Cluck Moo, told NPR .

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