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Crowing vs Clucks - What's the difference?

crowing | clucks |

As verbs the difference between crowing and clucks

is that crowing is while clucks is (cluck).

As a noun crowing

is a cry of joy or pleasure.

crowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cry of joy or pleasure.
  • * 1865 , Methodist Episcopal Church, Ladies' Repository
    • The tiny mouth is uttering the most satisfied of crowings , and her eyes have that pure, soft expression never seen except in baby eyes.

    clucks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cluck)

    • 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