What is another word for Clucking?

Pronunciation: [klˈʌkɪŋ] (IPA)

Clucking is a term that refers to the sound made by a chicken. This sound is often associated with a mother hen who is trying to protect her chicks or trying to call them to eat. However, the term 'clucking' can also mean being talkative or expressing disapproval with a short sharp noise. Other synonyms for clucking include squawking, cackling, chirping, chattering, jabbering, and babbling. Each of these words connotes a slightly different sound or emotional tone, but they all have a similar meaning in conveying a sense of annoyance or irritation at someone's words or actions. Whatever word one uses, clucking remains an effective way to describe the sound of a chicken or the sound of disapproving human voices.

What are the hypernyms for Clucking?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Clucking

Then mothers Clucking softly to their offspring in the twilight brooded them in to shelter from the night damp of the lake, and men, sharing odd pieces and wisps of tobacco, lay down to talk and plan and dropped dead asleep with the hot pipes still clenched in their teeth.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
Mary had gone this walk many hundred times in the course of her life, generally alone, and at different stages the ghosts of past moods would flood her mind with a whole scene or train of thought merely at the sight of three trees from a particular angle, or at the sound of the pheasant Clucking in the ditch.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Mary dipped her hand in the bucket he carried, and was at once the center of a circle also; and as she cast her grain she talked alternately to the birds and to her brother, in the same Clucking, half-inarticulate voice, as it sounded to Ralph, standing on the outskirts of the fluttering feathers in his black overcoat.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf

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