clucky

"The bird," he writes, "flies over the snake with a 'clucky' chirp, and whenever the natives hear it in the dense scrubs they sneak in to discover the reptile, which is caught by being grabbed at the back of the head."

My Tropic Isle 1887

Ethan made her feel 'clucky', she said she isn't sure she will ever become a mother herself.

Home | Mail Online 2010

Joe made a chirping, clucky noise, the poult looked him square in the eye, "and something very unambiguous happened in that moment".

TV review: My Life as a Turkey 2011

She had noticed nothing out of the ordinary with the rooster and hen leading up to the lay and neither appeared to be feeling particularly clucky yesterday, she said.

Introducing the Four-Legged Chicken | Impact Lab 2006

I too am so clucky when I see, smell or hold a newborn, they are just too precious .... but they grow up and I just don't have the energy!

nostalgia trip; birth 2005

Just talking to them made me so very clucky again.

lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2006

It also means that when babies are brought in for everyone to get collectively clucky over, they aren't right next to my desk which is actually noiser than construction work and seriously stops me doing helpdesk properly.

August 2nd, 2006 curufea 2006

We have over a hundred so if anybody is feeling a little bored/claustrophobic/clean/clucky, your presence is more than welcom

One of these days… 2004

And I'm still so stinking clucky, I'm seriously ready to steal a baby and call it mine.

lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2005

Don't know what it is that's making me so clucky lately, but I reckon it's the new addition to my now trio of adored and spoilt nephews way back in the motherland.

lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2005