Cluck vs. Pluck

By Jaxson

  • Cluck (noun)

    The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

  • Cluck (noun)

    Any sound similar to this.

  • Cluck (noun)

    A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

  • Cluck (verb)

    To make such a sound.

  • Cluck (verb)

    To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.

    “My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.”

  • Cluck (verb)

    To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

  • Cluck (verb)

    to suffer withdrawal from heroin.

  • Pluck (verb)

    To pull something sharply; to pull something out

    “She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.”

  • Pluck (verb)

    To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

  • 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.”

  • Pluck (verb)

    To remove feathers from a bird.

  • Pluck (verb)

    To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

    “The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.”

  • Pluck (verb)

    To play a string instrument pizzicato.

    “Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.”

  • Pluck (verb)

    To pull or twitch sharply.

    “to pluck at somebody’s sleeve”

  • Pluck (verb)

    To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.

  • Pluck (verb)

    Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

  • Pluck (noun)

    An instance of plucking.

    “Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.”

  • Pluck (noun)

    The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

  • Pluck (noun)

    Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

    “Thesaurus:courage”

    “He didn’t get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.”

  • Pluck (noun)

    Cheap wine.

    “plonk”

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