CLUCKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clucking mean? 

• CLUCKING (noun)
  The noun CLUCKING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CLUCKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUCKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

cluck; clucking

Hypernyms ("clucking" is a kind of...):

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

 Context examples 

It was the shrill out-cry of the landlady when she found her loss, and the clucking of the hens, which had streamed in through the open door, that first broke in upon the slumbers of the tired wayfarers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)