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
There is no word on when the huge henhouse will cluck again.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023
She stopped running as soon as she heard him cluck to the horse, and when the hoofbeats started again, she turned and walked purposefully toward the plantation, back straight, head held proudly.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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
She clucks her tongue, disregarding his complaint as though she were dealing with a toddler, and then gets to the point: She took his place in line for the Iron Throne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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
With a few clucks and some skillful handling of the reins, he urged the horse to pull their carriage sideways, blocking the way.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
A few years later he portrayed zany King Candy in “Wreck-It Ralph. That led to such animated hits as “Frozen,” “Zootopia” and “Moana,” for which Tudyk clucked a “chicken under duress” character named Heihei.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
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
A hen clucked proudly, and Tree-ear grinned—Min would have an egg for his supper.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
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
Overhead the hens were clucking on their rope.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
