cluckings

Weird "cluckings" from his mouth were understood and obeyed without use of spurs.

Colorado Jim George Goodchild

We are frozen in time, yet the video evokes remembrances of cluckings past.

Boing Boing 2009

Throg sputtered and mouthed difficult Italian, then, surprisingly, mouthed a clearly English word, "Dunno," and burst into gutteral cluckings and clickings.

"The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2010

Clad in vast black robes, with a tuft of hair on the top of the skull, and a shield of rhinoceros leather, they wielded a steel which had no handle, and which they held by a rope; and their camels, which bristled all over with feathers, uttered long, hoarse cluckings.

Salammbo 2003

But the cluckings weren't panicky, as they would have been if the scent of wolf were m the wind.

The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

But the cluckings weren't panicky, as they would have been if the scent of wolf were m the wind.

The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

And the creatures, with all manner of hootings, squeakings, and cluckings, would dive away into the darkness.

The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953

Hardly had Anna's timid "Here" reached her ears than a series of subdued cluckings came from some small boy's throat.

A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely

No expostulations nor chirrupings nor cluckings availed aught.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

Little, delicate, sweet-smelling airs floated over the tops of the hedges from the fields beyond, and now and then a few stray notes of a blackbird's song stole out from a plantation near at hand, breaking off suddenly and dying down into drowsy, contented little cluckings and twitterings.

The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler