cluck n.1
1. (orig. US, also kluck) a dull, stupid person (with the brains of a chicken).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 28: This guy O’Brien is a ‘cluck.’ Take it from me. | |
| ‘The Gangster’s Elegy’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 248: Gene, who ain’t nobody’s cluck, can take that or leave it. | |
| Appleton Post-Crescent (WI) 29 Apr. 7/2: Flapper Dictionary cluck – A girl who is a clumsy dancer. | |
| Broadway Melody 32: I could use the blonde. But the other cluck is—out! | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dames Don’t Care (1960) 80: I am just a big dumb cluck with no brains. | |
| I Can Get It For You Wholesale 112: It felt strange to be thankful for the arrival of a kluck like Meyer Babushkin. | |
| Mildred Pierce (1985) 345: In addition to being dirty bastards, and very dumb clucks, they are also goddam liars. | |
| World So Wide 1: It’s his cluck of a wife that really gets me down [...] always criticizing some poor bunny. | |
| My Friend Judas (1963) 14: Only the dumb clucks can say they’re grateful and mean it. | |
| in Sweet Daddy 58: No matter what kind of cluck he [i.e. a police chief] is he can tell a guy with brains what to do. | |
| Bad (1995) 53: The dude was a real cluck. | |
| Fort Apache, The Bronx 85: God, willya help me with poor, dumb Oirish clucks. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 85: You’re not a cluck selling real estate in Peru, Indiana. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| ‘Mr. Mister’ in All-Story Weekly 22 May 🌐 This here Chesterfield flipper has a cluck sound to his make-up somewhere. | |
| On Broadway 17 Mar. [synd. col.] The cluck colyumer who is playing into the paws of the enemy by falling for [...] stuff comorting to Goebbels. |
3. a general term of address.
| ‘Time to Kill’ Crack Detective Jan. 🌐 ‘How did you figure that angle out, Casso?’ ‘Just figuring it safe, cluck.’. |
4. (US) an egg.
| , | | DAS 111/2: cluck and grunt Eggs and ham. |