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
“I was on the dance floor acting strange,” the lyrics go, “flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I’m the disco duck.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
"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
I heard Chubs’s tongue cluck as he opened his mouth to say something, but there was a sharp cough from the driver’s seat.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
Once he startled her by making a harsh cackling sound, suddenly, and then a series of soft clucks.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
“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
“I gestured and clucked like a chicken,” she says — a request for spices used to prepare chicken.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022
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
The second daughter sat briefly on his lap and clucked him under the chin.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
Towns in France and Belgium, for example, give out chickens to serve as walking, clucking garbage disposals.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023
Overhead the hens were clucking on their rope.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
