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Cluck vs Dook - What's the difference?

cluck | dook |

As nouns the difference between cluck and dook

is that cluck is the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks while dook is a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

As verbs the difference between cluck and dook

is that cluck is to make such a sound while dook is to make a certain clucking sound.

cluck

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal) * (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make such a sound.
  • To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
  • * Shakespeare
    • She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, / Has clucked three to the wars.
  • to suffer withdrawal from heroin.

    • See also

    * cackle English onomatopoeias

    dook

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.

    • Etymology 2

    (duck)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) duck
  • * 1835 , James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2
    • But anger is a blin' guide — he dooked from the first blow, an' it passed wi' little ill; an' he raised his drawn sword, an' made a wild cut at my head...

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See also (l) (cloth).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) ----