Old English cloccian originally echoic. Compare Turkish culuk, one of the words for "turkey;" Greek klozein, Latin glocire, German glucken. Related: Clucked; clucking.
cluck (n.)
1703, "sound made by a hen," from cluck (v.). Slang meaning "stupid person" (turkeys are famously foolish) is from 1927.
权威例句
1. I've never been one to cluck over babies of either sex.
不管是男孩还是女孩,我从来都对小孩没什么兴趣。
2. The seamstresses cluck around a dummy, discussing a tuck here and there.
这些女裁缝围着模特儿衣架叽叽嘎嘎地讨论衣服这里或那里要做的小改动。
3. He is handsome, but a dumb cluck.
他很英俊, 却是个傻瓜.
4. So, did he make you cluck like a chicken?
那么他有没有让你像小鸡那样吱吱叫 呢 ?
5. Some cluck came in and asked for a lefthanded monkey wrench.