cluck

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 [V] when a chicken clucks, it makes a series of short low sounds 2 to make a short low sound with your tongue to show that you feel sorry for sb or that you disapprove of sth: [V] The teacher clucked sympathetically at the child's story. [also VN, Vspeech] noun the low, short sounds that a chicken makes: (figurative) a cluck of impatience / annoyance