cluck
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It certainly also helps that chicken thighs, by wide acclaim, are more difficult to cluck up in the kitchen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
"Everyone has their own inyeon," they cluck back.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023
With the annual Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching, the agency leaned heavily into festive puns in their caption, quipping that its officers "are always working around the cluck to keep you safe".
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022
Mochrie was eager for a challenge, even if he worried that the laughs would come from making audiences cluck like chickens.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
They pat and they fuss, and above all, they cluck.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
A University of Queensland-led study has found humans can tell if chickens are excited or displeased, just by the sound of their clucks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
A cacophony of clucks led to neighbor complaints, followed by a citation from the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
My rooster's clucks are used to refer to the food – with the hens understanding that reference.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
“So much change to adjust to,” Aunt Lydia clucks soothingly.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2021
He thought the chicken would calm as he carried her—Charlie carried all his chickens around—but her frantic clucks added to the chorus of crickets and the crescendo of the owls: Who?
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023
The buzzer of the building had been rewired to blast native birdcalls; sidewalk passersby often glanced over their shoulders as a bald eagle clucked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
“He was going to come to Washington,” Trump clucked.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2018
Then she clucked her tongue at all the wastefulness.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
I remember the clucking when Mr. Cook took over as CEO in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
"He didn't let US government clucking and handwringing stop him," says Robert Carlin.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
And feeding chickens turns out to be a clucking good solution to a few specific climate challenges.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023
The machinery there can turn a chicken from a clucking, feathered bird into a shrink-wrapped pack of parts in just ten minutes.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
