cluck

noun

1. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
2. Any sound similar to this.
3. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
4. (Texas)A setting hen.

verb

1. (intransitive)To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).

   “"I came across him once," he continued, "when he was playing down on the main road to Skaug; there he sat in the middle of the road with a lot of hens around him, I counted seven, and there were more round about in the wood, for I heard them clucking and calling behind every bush."”

2. (transitive)To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.

   “My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.”

3. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

   “When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.”

4. (British)To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

name

1. A surname.