cluck
Sound from poultry
Cluck is the short, throaty sound a chicken makes, especially a hen calling her chicks.
The verb means to make this sound, or by extension, to express fussy disapproval: She clucked her tongue at the mess.
A cluck or dumb cluck is a stupid person—someone with a chicken's brain.
Female fowl
- chickenDomestic fowl for eating
- roosterMale domestic fowl
- chickYoung bird, especially poultry
- broodHatchlings as a group
coop · henhouse · barnyard · pecking · scratch · forage · nesting · eggs
Clicking rebuke sound
nag · criticize · rebuke · reproach · faultfinding · nitpicking · censure · reproof
hen
Female fowl
brood · coop · henhouse · barnyard · pecking · scratch · forage · nesting · eggs · laying
tsk
Clicking rebuke sound
fuss · nag · criticize · rebuke · reproach · faultfinding · nitpicking · censure · reproof · admonish
chatter
Light, rapid speech
- tattleReveal another's wrongdoing
- chitchatInformal light conversation
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
gabble · babble · cackle · natter · busybody · yenta · tittle-tattle · whisper · rumor · hearsay
cackle
Harsh, shrill laugh
gobble · cheep · peep · chirp · coo · quack · honk · call · cry
- hunting callsturkey call, duck call, deer call, goose call, coyote call
- natural soundsthunder, rain, wind, birdsong, waves
- animal callsbird call, bird calls, ribbit, frog calls, peep
- animal soundsbark, meow, woof, moo, roar
- dimwitsdimwit, idiot, dolt, dunce, moron
- disapprovaldisapproval, scowl, disapprove, disapproves, frown
cluckgenius
Person of rare brilliance
brain · whiz · wizard · brainiac · mastermind
cluckcrow
Large black corvid
rooster call · cock-a-doodle-doo · screech · squawk · cackle
- cluck one's tongueSharp oral disapproval sound
- tongue clucking
- dumb cluckSlang for a fool