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
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