cluckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English clokken, clocken, from 古期英語 cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin. 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”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /klʌk/
• 韻: -ʌk

名詞

cluck (複数形 clucks)

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.

派生語

• dumb cluck

動詞

cluck (三人称単数 現在形 clucks, 現在分詞 clucking, 過去形および過去分詞形 clucked)

1. (intransitive) To make such a sound.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72:

     "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. (transitive) 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.
   • 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]:

     When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
     Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.

4. (Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.

派生語

• cluck one's tongue

参考

• cackle