cluck英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
Any sound similar to this.
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
A setting hen. Texas

动词 v.

To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens). intransitive

— "I came across him once," he continued, "when he was playing down on the main road to Skaug; there he sat in the middle of the road with a lot of hens around him, I counted seven, and there were more round about in the wood, for I heard them clucking and calling behind every bush."
To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound. transitive

— My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

— When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.
To suffer withdrawal from heroin. UK

词形变化

clucks plural clutch alternative,dialectal clock alternative clucks present,singular,third-person clucking participle,present clucked participle,past clucked past clutch alternative,dialectal clock alternative

词汇关系

衍生词

dumb cluck clucker cluck one's tongue clucky

词源

词源 1

From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).

词源 2

From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).