- cluck (v.)
[cluck 词源字典]
- Old English cloccian originally echoic. Compare Turkish culuk, one of the words for "turkey;" Greek klozein, Latin glocire, German glucken. Related: Clucked; clucking.[cluck etymology, cluck origin, 英语词源]
- cluck (n.)
- 1703, "sound made by a hen," from cluck (v.). Slang meaning "stupid person" (turkeys are famously foolish) is from 1927.