Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cluck
Participle: clucked
Gerund: clucking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cluck |
| you | cluck |
| he;she;it | clucks |
| we | cluck |
| you | cluck |
| they | cluck |
Perfect
| I | have clucked |
| you | have clucked |
| he;she;it | has clucked |
| we | have clucked |
| you | have clucked |
| they | have clucked |
Past
| I | clucked |
| you | clucked |
| he;she;it | clucked |
| we | clucked |
| you | clucked |
| they | clucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clucked |
| you | had clucked |
| he;she;it | had clucked |
| we | had clucked |
| you | had clucked |
| they | had clucked |
Future
| I | will cluck |
| you | will cluck |
| he;she;it | will cluck |
| we | will cluck |
| you | will cluck |
| they | will cluck |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clucked |
| you | will have clucked |
| he;she;it | will have clucked |
| we | will have clucked |
| you | will have clucked |
| they | will have clucked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cluck |
| you | cluck |
| he;she;it | cluck |
| we | cluck |
| you | cluck |
| they | cluck |
Perfect
| I | have clucked |
| you | have clucked |
| he;she;it | have clucked |
| we | have clucked |
| you | have clucked |
| they | have clucked |
Imperfect
| I | clucked |
| you | clucked |
| he;she;it | clucked |
| we | clucked |
| you | clucked |
| they | clucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clucked |
| you | had clucked |
| he;she;it | had clucked |
| we | had clucked |
| you | had clucked |
| they | had clucked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cluck |
| you | would cluck |
| he;she;it | would cluck |
| we | would cluck |
| you | would cluck |
| they | would cluck |
Perfect
| I | would have clucked |
| you | would have clucked |
| he;she;it | would have clucked |
| we | would have clucked |
| you | would have clucked |
| they | would have clucked |
Imperative
| you | cluck |
| we | Let's cluck |
| you | cluck |
Verbs conjugated like 'cluck'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cluck'
chuck,
clack,
cleck,
click,
clock,
clunk,
cruck,
cuck,
gluck,
luck,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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.
2. 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”). See: Middle English '
clokken', Old English '
cloccian', Proto-Germanic '
*klukkwōną', Dutch '
klokken', Low Saxon 'klucken', German, old spelling '
glucken', Danish '
klukke', Swedish '
klucka', Icelandic '
klökkva'.
Verbs referencing "cluck"
Faroese
klekja, Icelandic
klekja, Ido klukar, Cimbrian khlukhan.
Sample Sentences
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"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." [1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72:]
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My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
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When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
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Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home. [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:]