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
There is no word on when the huge henhouse will cluck again.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 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 we saw a creakity wagon up ahead full of country folks going to town, I’d cluck the mules to a smart trot and we’d all wave as we passed them.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“Suddenly with a plop, the egg landed on the straw. With clucks of pleasure the hen shook her feathers, nudged the egg with her beak, and left,” Goodall wrote almost 60 years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
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
And that could lead to a future with many more happy clucks.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 28, 2022
My rooster's clucks are used to refer to the food – with the hens understanding that reference.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
With loud, pleased clucks, the chicken shook her feathers, moved the egg with her beak, then proudly strutted her way out of the henhouse.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
“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 chief clucked his tongue some more, lapsing into silence.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 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
Now I lashed a load to the stone boat, clucked to Plug, and we were off.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
When Dad said that, Sitti made this clucking noise with her tongue.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
