Clucking (Noun)
Meaning
The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks).
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The farmer was greeted by the clucking of his hens as he approached the coop.
- In the farmyard, the gentle clucking of a mother hen guided her chicks towards the nesting box.
- As I watched, a soft clucking drew the tiny chicks under their mother's wings.
- Outside my window, a continuous clucking competed with the hum of traffic in the background.
- Within seconds of breaking eggs into a box, I could hear a suspicious clucking coming from behind a stack of hay.