Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oyster that, owing to its having been chilled or otherwise injured, sounds hollow when its shell is struck.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word clucker.
Examples
-
The little clucker is a Barnevelder chicken, a Dutch breed, and Mrs Dickey said other lesser legged chicks had accepted it without a problem.
-
The “clucker” program did nothing to substantially aid the American car markers — although it did help our foreign auto maker friends.
-
Feathers fly when this colossal clucker descends upon Hoboken, New Jersey.
Review: The Hoboken Chicken Emergency tinylittlelibrarian 2009
-
The “clucker” program did nothing to substantially aid the American car markers — although it did help our foreign auto maker friends.
-
Feathers fly when this colossal clucker descends upon Hoboken, New Jersey.
Archive 2009-01-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2009
-
She immediately began to cluck too, which evidently astonished the hidden clucker, who got very excited and let off a perfect volley of clucks.
The Valley of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1947
-
The unknown wonderful voice in the spring morning, sending out its "_cluck, cluck, cluck, clucker_," in the distant woods, the large gray Woodpecker that bored in some high stub and flew in a blaze of gold, and the wonderful spotted bird with red head and yellow wings and tail in the taxidermist's window, were all resolved into one and the same -- the Flicker or Golden-winged
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
-
He cut such whacking slices off the loaf and off the good red ham beside him that it was a joy to watch him; after he had raised the cluck-clucker [38] to his lips, his conversation became so entertaining that Henrietta listened to him with delight.
The Poor Plutocrats M��r J��kai 1864
-
Well cock-a-doodle-doo … at last the cowardly clucker has stopped running.
Mirror.co.uk - News 2010
-
Well cock-a-doodle-doo … at last the cowardly clucker has stopped running.
Mirror.co.uk - News 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.