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Lucks vs Glucks - What's the difference?

lucks | glucks |

As verbs the difference between lucks and glucks

is that lucks is third-person singular of luck while glucks is third-person singular of gluck.

lucks

English

Verb

(head)
  • (luck)

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    luck

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
    • The raffle is just a matter of luck .
    Sometimes it takes a bit of luck to get success.
    I couldn't believe my luck when I found a fifty dollar bill on the street.
    Gilbert had some bad luck yesterday — he got pick-pocketed and lost fifty dollars.
  • A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
    • He blew on the dice for luck .
    I wish you lots of luck for the exam tomorrow.
  • success
    • I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck .
    He has a lot of luck with the ladies, perhaps it is because of his new motorbike.

    Synonyms

    * fortune (both senses)

    Derived terms

    * bad luck * down on one's luck * good luck * luckless * lucky * lucky break * luck out * luck of the draw * luck of the Irish * luck upon * push one's luck * ride one's luck * run of bad luck * sheer luck * streak of good luck

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To succeed by chance.
    • His plan lucked out.
  • To rely on luck.
    • No plan. We're just to going to have to luck through.
  • To carry out relying on luck.
    • Our plan is to luck it through.
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    glucks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gluck)

    • gluck

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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
    • But so long as the water kept flopping and glucking aside me, I was right.
  • * 1904 , H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind
    • The little phial glucked out its precious contents.
  • * 1990 , E. P. Mathers, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (page 235)
    • 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.
  • * 2008 , Neil Munro, John Splendid (page 183)
    • The river, hurrying through grassy levels, glucked and clattered and plopped most gaily