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cluck

verb
🔊/klʌk/
🔊/klʌk/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they cluck
🔊/klʌk/
🔊/klʌk/
he / she / it clucks
🔊/klʌks/
🔊/klʌks/
past simple clucked
🔊/klʌkt/
🔊/klʌkt/
past participle clucked
🔊/klʌkt/
🔊/klʌkt/
-ing form clucking
🔊/ˈklʌkɪŋ/
🔊/ˈklʌkɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] when a chicken clucks, it makes a series of short low sounds （鸡）咯咯地叫，发出咯咯声
  2. [intransitive] to make a short low sound with your tongue to show that you feel sorry for somebody or that you think something is bad（表示遗憾或不赞成）发出啧啧声
    • The teacher clucked sympathetically at the child's story.对那小孩讲述的遭遇，老师啧啧地表示同情。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originlate 15th cent.: imitative, corresponding to Danish klukke, Swedish klucka.

cluck

noun
🔊/klʌk/
🔊/klʌk/
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  1. the short low sounds that a chicken makes（鸡的）咯咯声
    • (figurative) a cluck of impatience/annoyance不耐烦／气恼的啧啧声
    Topics Birdsc2
    Word Originlate 15th cent.: imitative, corresponding to Danish klukke, Swedish klucka.