Whinny vs Cluck - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between whinny and cluck

is that whinny is a gentle neigh while cluck is the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

is that whinny is to make a gentle neigh while cluck is to make such a sound.

(whinnies)

A gentle neigh.

* Tennyson

The stately horse stooped with a low whinny .

(transitive, intransitive, of a horse) To make a gentle neigh.

* (l) (dialectal) * (l)

(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.

(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.