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Synonyms for cluck

the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)

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make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

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A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
Then the Wizard clucked to the Sawhorse and said: "Gid-dap!" and the wooden animal pranced away and drew behind him the big red wagon and all the passengers, without any effort at all.
The hens and the cock had already settled to roost there, and clucked peevishly, clinging to the beam with their claws.
No smoke curled from the chimney, not a barnyard fowl clucked and strutted.
So the next day, we dragged a ladder to the tree and my partner Ali clambered up, but as soon as she got near the turkey, the beast clucked in alarm and soared off.
If it once moo'd, baa'd, clucked or oinked, I've tossed it on the barbie.