cluck, noun

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EnglishShow more Special sense of general English.
obs.
click. Also attributive.
1828 J. Philip Researches I. 15Words of more than one syllable are accompanied or divided and rendered special and emphatic in their application by two clucks.
1840 T. Pringle Narr. of Res. 93The dialect now spoken by the frontier Caffers partakes to a certain extent of the Hottentot cluck, a peculiarity not to be found among the tribes farther back.
click. Also attributive.
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