cluck
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 咯咯的叫声
- v.
- 咯咯叫
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 clokken
- 继承自 ←古英语 cloccian “to cluck, make a noise”
- 继承自 ←原始西日耳曼语 *klukkwōn
- 继承自 ←原始日耳曼语 *klukkwōną “to make a sound, cluck”
词源说明
From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, 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”).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
动词 Verb
- (intransitive) To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
- (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
- To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
- (UK, drug slang) To suffer withdrawal