clucked; clucking; clucks
1
: to make a cluck
2
: to make a clicking sound with the tongue
3
: to express interest or concern
critics clucked over the new developments
1
: the characteristic sound made by a hen especially in calling her chicks
2
: a stupid or naive person
a dumb cluck
Synonyms
Noun
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- meathead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of cluck in a Sentence
Verb
The hen clucked at her chicks.
The driver clucked at the horses to get them moving.
Commentators have been clucking over his lack of experience.
Noun
Don't be such a dumb cluck.
stuck with a bunch of clucks on an extended bus tour
Recent Examples on the Web
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
—Arthur Allen, CBS News, 29 May 2024
Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
Her 8-year-old daughter, wearing pigtails, sucked on a lollipop as the clucks of chickens cut through the quiet of the neighborhood.
1 of 2
In Georgia, agriculture is a $83.6 billion industry that supports more than 323,000 jobs, according to the Georgia Farm Bureau.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2024
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Verb
There were no festival premieres or breathless pundits clucking about having seen it months before everybody.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
—Arthur Allen, CBS News, 29 May 2024
Noun
For me, the Caribbean is the cluck of a rooster during sunrise, a coconut from a roadside truck to quell the afternoon heat.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
Her 8-year-old daughter, wearing pigtails, sucked on a lollipop as the clucks of chickens cut through the quiet of the neighborhood.
1 of 2
In Georgia, agriculture is a $83.6 billion industry that supports more than 323,000 jobs, according to the Georgia Farm Bureau.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for cluck
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“Cluck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cluck. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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