cluck
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It certainly also helps that chicken thighs, by wide acclaim, are more difficult to cluck up in the kitchen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
"Everyone has their own inyeon," they cluck back.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023
With the annual Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching, the agency leaned heavily into festive puns in their caption, quipping that its officers "are always working around the cluck to keep you safe".
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022
Order “Lewellyn’s Fine Fried Chicken,” and you get, every time, chicken that’s golden, crisp, juicy — something to cluck about, especially after a shake or two of the stinging housemade hot sauce.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2021
I heard Chubs’s tongue cluck as he opened his mouth to say something, but there was a sharp cough from the driver’s seat.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
A University of Queensland-led study has found humans can tell if chickens are excited or displeased, just by the sound of their clucks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
She clucks her tongue, disregarding his complaint as though she were dealing with a toddler, and then gets to the point: She took his place in line for the Iron Throne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
My rooster's clucks are used to refer to the food – with the hens understanding that reference.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
“So much change to adjust to,” Aunt Lydia clucks soothingly.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2021
The grandmother clucks at her granddaughter, then confides to the young man, "She's going to look just like an angel, pink and blond."
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023
The buzzer of the building had been rewired to blast native birdcalls; sidewalk passersby often glanced over their shoulders as a bald eagle clucked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
Geese and ducks clucked about with their usual village intensity.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
Mother Finnegan clucked around like an apologetic hen.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
It’s as though we, the attendees of prestige cinema, are peering down on our social inferiors, clucking condescendingly while we credit ourselves with advanced empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
And feeding chickens turns out to be a clucking good solution to a few specific climate challenges.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023
Aunt Hila made a clucking noise as she switched lanes without looking and set off a few furious horns behind her.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
