One way to hold this word: a short, low click made at the back of the mouth, repeated in small bursts. It is quiet. It is not a cry or a shout — it is the sort of sound that only carries a few steps. The hen in the yard makes it while she feeds, and a person makes almost the same sound by pulling the tongue off the roof of the mouth. Everything the word does grows out of that one small click.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces cluck to Middle English clokken and Old English cloccian (to cluck, to make a noise), described there as of imitative origin, with cognates such as Dutch klokken and German glucken. The word was built to sound like the noise, which is why the sound is the centre of the word.
依據 Wiktionary 的記載，cluck 來自中古英語 clokken、古英語 cloccian（咯咯叫、發出聲響），並註明是擬聲來源，荷蘭語 klokken、德語 glucken 都是同源字。也就是說，這個字一開始就是照著聲音造的，所以「聲音」本身就是它的中心，其他用法都是從這一聲延伸出去的。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract in evidence packet), source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:871824851 / :871839992
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原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cluckname
- 1
A surname.
clucknoun/klʌk/
- 1
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
- 2
Any sound similar to this.
- 3
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
- 4
A setting hen.
cluckverb/klʌk/
- 1
To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
- "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."
- 2
To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
- My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
- 3
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
- When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.
- 4
To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。