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Definition of Clucking
1. Noun. The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks).
Definition of Clucking
1. n. The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Definition of Clucking
1. Verb. (present participle of cluck) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb cluck. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clucking
1. cluck [v] - See also: cluck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clucking
Literary usage of Clucking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Graded Literature Readers by Harry Pratt Judson, Ida C. Bender (1899)
""Will you take a walk with me, My little wife, to-day ? There's barley in the
barley field, And hayseed in the hay." a. "Thank you/' said the clucking hen; ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"The term for squatting or crouching is connected with the clucking of a hen in
languages widely separated from each other. ..."
3. Stories to Act by Frances Gillespy Wickes (1915)
"THE clucking HEN "Will you take a walk with me, My little wife, to-day? ...
"Thank you," said the clucking hen; "I've something else to do; I'm busy sitting ..."
4. A Circuit Rider's Widow by Corra Harris (1916)
"We can always hear him clicking and clucking in the amen corner, because he is
our one rich man and our chief stingy man, and he knows everybody is waiting ..."
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