Cluck vs Clunk - What's the difference?
cluck | clunk |
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 cluck and clunk
is that cluck is the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks while clunk is a dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.As verbs the difference between cluck and clunk
is that cluck is to make such a sound while clunk is to make such a sound.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.