as in idiot
a stupid person
stuck with a bunch of clucks on an extended bus tour
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Recent Examples of cluck
This leads us to the crux...or perhaps the clucks...of my story.
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Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Chickens run and cluck around the Bennet home; the family’s clothes look worn, at times even dirty; the houses are cluttered, the people messy, their interactions chaotic.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
On their 33 acres, the clucks and crows from their flock of 60 chickens and two turkeys is constant.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2025
To my ears the cluck of his call was even more seductive than the real thing.
—Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
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Noun
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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And then, the rest of her life, filled with big stupids and everything else, will begin.—
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
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Do not let Fernando Mendoza’s earnestness fool you.—
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But telling Porsha something in confidence is a fool’s errand.—
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The ordeal generated local headlines, as Berman had to navigate sheer rocks and treacherous terrain in the dark to save the mutt.—
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Having co-created the eponymous pooch, writer Bob Baker retained some of the rights to the character, but crucially not to the design or his connections to a certain Time Lord — hence the extensive makeover and the lack of references to the metal mutt's adventures in space and time.—
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“Cluck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cluck. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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