cluck

FREQ #20572

n. 咯咯的叫声 v. 咯咯叫

发音

AU /klʌk/
IE /klʊk/
其它 /klʊk/

词形变化

clucks 复数 clucked clucketh clucking clucks 三单 clucks cluckt clucking 现在分词 clucked 过去式 clucked 过去分词

别名

clutch clock clack

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

  2. 2.

    Any sound similar to this.

  3. 3.

    A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

  4. 4.

    A setting hen.

v.
  1. 1.

    To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

  3. 3.

    To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

  4. 4.

    To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.

    及物

    My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

clucking

上位词 1

cry
动词

同义词 2

click clack

上位词 4

utter emit let out let loose

相关短语

cluck one's tongue dumb cluck

词源

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”).

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