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
Order “Lewellyn’s Fine Fried Chicken,” and you get, every time, chicken that’s golden, crisp, juicy — something to cluck about, especially after a shake or two of the stinging housemade hot sauce.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2021
“Cluck … cluck … cluck …,” someone said from the front of the bus.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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
The clucks from children coaxing donkeys carrying loads of coal down the mountain.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
The clucks and whispers spread throughout the hall: “He isn’t coming!”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
“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
Deanna Lin, who owns four chickens in Menlo Park, was unaware of the outbreak as her four hens clucked and scratched across her yard last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
“He was going to come to Washington,” Trump clucked.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2018
He watched me walk through the gate before he climbed back up onto the seat of the wagon, lifted his reins, clucked to the horses, and drove off without looking back.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
I remember the clucking when Mr. Cook took over as CEO in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
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
Residents in Glasgow housing estates could soon be hearing the sound of mooing cows and clucking hens outside their homes.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
Each of them had gone from clucking animal to oven-ready roaster in ten minutes, give or take.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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