Glucked vs Plucked - What's the difference?
glucked | plucked |
(gluck)
(ambitransitive) To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.
* 1900 , J. H. Crawford, The autobiography of a tramp
* 1904 , H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind
* 1990 , E. P. Mathers, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (page 235)
* 2008 , Neil Munro, John Splendid (page 183)
(pluck)
(of something with feathers, hair etc. ) Having had these items removed by plucking.
(of the strings of an instrument) Played by plucking.
Having courage and spirit; plucky.
As verbs the difference between glucked and plucked
is that glucked is past tense of gluck while plucked is past tense of pluck.As an adjective plucked is
(of something with feathers, hair etc.) Having had these items removed by plucking.glucked
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Verb
(head)gluck
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Verb
(en verb)- But so long as the water kept flopping and glucking aside me, I was right.
- The little phial glucked out its precious contents.
- Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that the eldest of my brothers, he who became lame, is called Bakbuk because when he tattles he makes a glucking noise like water coming out of a jar.
- The river, hurrying through grassy levels, glucked and clattered and plopped most gaily
