(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 .
Gobble
Definition:
(v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
(v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
(v. i.) To eat greedily.
(v. i.) To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
(n.) A noise made in the throat.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(2) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
(3) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) Many landowners have been in financial limbo for years as the authority weighs different paths, leaving farmers wary of planting crops or buying new equipment in case their land gets gobbled up.
(6) Deep thought That sense of responsibility was put on show earlier this year when Cadbury turned Dairy Milk into a Fairtrade product and so transforming gobbling down a big bar of the purple stuff into snacking with a social conscience.
(7) The competition regulator is examining whether gobbling up one of Poundland’s few single-price rivals will give the retailer more freedom to reduce the offers shoppers get for their £1 – like those two-for-a-pound Aloe Vera drinks.
(8) Arsenal came to resemble the chicken feed from the lower reaches of the Bundesliga that Bayern routinely gobble up, although there is no shame in being beaten by them – and badly at that.
(9) But the new research does suggest that the reasons for long-term endemic joblessness are much more complicated than the story crafted by government and eagerly gobbled up by irresponsible programme makers and scrounger-seeking tabloids.
(10) Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill.
(11) Saints 0-3 Seahawks, 10:19, 1st quarter Still a strong defensive stand for the Saints, who gobble up a pair of Lynch runs before dragging down receiver Doug Baldwin after a short gain on third-and-nine.
(12) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
(13) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
(14) Instead of savouring, we gobble – not just words, but everything.
(15) One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche.
(16) Jones, who admitted to eating Weetabix for breakfast every other day – alternating with porridge – said he had "no problem" with China gobbling up great British brands, but just wished that they would be "similarly open to British investment in China".
(17) By the end of this process, Americans had gobbled up more than 85 per cent of Chile's hard-currency earning industries.
(18) Fledgling publicist Max persuaded Kelvin MacKenzie, the then Sun editor, to run a story about how Starr put his friend Lea La Salle's hamster, Supersonic, between two pieces of bread and gobbled it up.
(19) Snake, obviously Sure, now the greatest Electronic Arts and Rockstar games are available at the tap of an app, gobbling up phone space and hours of time.
(20) B efore I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fast food.