Bleat vs Cluck - What's the difference?
bleat | cluck |
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.
(informal) Of a person, to complain.
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
Any sound similar to this.
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
To make such a sound.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
* Shakespeare
to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
As nouns the difference between bleat and cluck
is that bleat is the characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat while cluck is the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.As verbs the difference between bleat and cluck
is that bleat is of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry while cluck is to make such a sound.bleat
English
Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Synonyms
* (sheep's cry ) baa, baaing, bleatingVerb
(en verb)- The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.
Synonyms
* (1): baa * (2): kvetch (US''), moan, whinge (''British ), whineAnagrams
* * * ----cluck
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, / Has clucked three to the wars.