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Cluck (noun)
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
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Cluck (noun)
Any sound similar to this.
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Cluck (noun)
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
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Cluck (verb)
To make such a sound.
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Cluck (verb)
To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
“My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.”
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Cluck (verb)
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
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Cluck (verb)
to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
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Pluck (verb)
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
“She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.”
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Pluck (verb)
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
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Pluck (verb)
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
“Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.”
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Pluck (verb)
To remove feathers from a bird.
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Pluck (verb)
To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
“The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.”
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Pluck (verb)
To play a string instrument pizzicato.
“Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.”
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Pluck (verb)
To pull or twitch sharply.
“to pluck at somebody’s sleeve”
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Pluck (verb)
To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
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Pluck (verb)
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
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Pluck (noun)
An instance of plucking.
“Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.”
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Pluck (noun)
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
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Pluck (noun)
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
“Thesaurus:courage”
“He didn’t get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.”
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Pluck (noun)
Cheap wine.
“plonk”