Synonyms of the word

clucking

• v. present participle of cluck.
• n. The action of the verb cluck.

cluck

• n. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
• n. Any sound similar to this.
• n. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
• v. (intransitive) To make such a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
• v. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
• v. (Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.

cry

• v. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
• v. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
• v. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found,…
• v. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
• n. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
• n. A shout or scream.
• n. Words shouted or screamed.
• n. (collectively) A group of hounds.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
• n. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
• n. A desperate or urgent request.
• n. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.