Glucks vs Clucks - What's the difference?
glucks | clucks |
(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)
(cluck)
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 verbs the difference between glucks and clucks
is that glucks is third-person singular of gluck while clucks is third-person singular of cluck.glucks
English
Verb
(head)gluck
English
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
clucks
English
Verb
(head)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.