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
“If anyone was going to cluck around like a chicken, that would have been me — that was another way they dropped the ball,” says an amused Boggs, adding: “But it worked out great.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
I know how to coo and cluck at a laying hen so she won’t peck at your hands when you go to take her still-warm eggs away.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
He taps the side of his head, and Gloria clucks her teeth.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
“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
She ignored the parents who clucked over their kids’ imperfect hair parts and short attention spans in favor of shooting candid moments, which make for better photographs, she argued.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2020
Rooster Jim hopped back onto the seat and clucked to the horses.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
It’s as though we, the attendees of prestige cinema, are peering down on our social inferiors, clucking condescendingly while we credit ourselves with advanced empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
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
And feeding chickens turns out to be a clucking good solution to a few specific climate challenges.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023
One chicken clucked, which got them all to clucking.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
