Putt vs Cluck - What's the difference?
putt | cluck |
(golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter on (or very near) a putting green.
(onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
(British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.
To make a putt sound.
(motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
To move along slowly.
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 nouns the difference between putt and cluck
is that putt is the act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green while cluck is the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.As verbs the difference between putt and cluck
is that putt is to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter on (or very near) a putting green while cluck is to make such a sound.putt
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Etymology 1
(en)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic, from putt-puttNoun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)cluck
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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.