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 Translation for 'clucking' from English to Spanish
NOUN   clucking | cluckings
VERB   to cluck | clucked | clucked
clucking | clucks
SYNO cluck | clucking
cacareo {m}clucking
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Translation for 'clucking' from English to Spanish

clucking
cacareo {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • The tropical chicken (Turpiculus Exoticus Pullus) can be found in small groups scattered around on the islands, where they spend most of their time clucking and running around in circles to demonstrate their (apparent lack of) intelligence.
  • Hypnotism has often been used by stage performers to induce volunteers do strange things, such as clucking like a chicken, for the entertainment of audiences.
  • The white-winged coot is very vocal, making a "variety of loud, hollow cackling calls and clucking notes" some of which sound like human laughter. Aggresive males make a "huc" call.
  • Its double-noted hoot, "boo-book," has a clucking quality with the second note usually lower in pitch. The begging call of juveniles is a high-pitched trill.
  • The male advertisement call is aloud, harsh clucking.

  • The advertisement call of the "R. cascadae" is a faint series of low, grating, clucking noises. Calls are produced at night and during the day from above and under the water.
  • The call of this species is a rattling "erk erk erk-kkkkkkkk" that descends into a chuckling gurgle. Feeding birds may give a low conversational clucking.
  • The nickname comes from the clucking second subject in the first movement, which reminded listeners of the jerky back-and-forth head motion of a walking hen.
  • The variety "Magna" (or "Magnum") is bred for more yellow and commands a premium price as a pet. Young birds make a "clucking" sound to indicate that they are hungry.
  • It was directed by Jack King and features the voice of Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and Florence Gill as the clucking voice of a chicken. The voice of Uncle Smiley was uncredited.

  • In 1977, comedian Ray Stevens recorded a "chicken clucking" version of Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" under the name "Henhouse Five Plus Too".
  • Billina appears in "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz". She is depicted as a red hen whose clucking can be understood by Scarecrow and is often seen inside Tin Man's chest compartment.
  • These birds make cooing and clucking sounds, usually in early morning or near dusk.
  • Spike Jones did a version using humorous instruments including a male impersonating a clucking chicken.
  • The male advertisement call is rather complex and variable. The first part is a series weak clucking sounds, followed by a loud, guttural croaking note.

  • Dizzy Dan plays the song Boulevardier from the Bronx to brag his likeness, with some clucking sounds.
  • The voice is low-pitched and guttural and includes chuckles, repeated clucking sounds, and expostulations. When displaying, the male makes rattles and barking noises.
  • The lattice-tailed trogon's song is a "rapid series of c.15 loud, resonant clucking 'kwa' notes rising in pitch and volume to a crescendo in [...] middle, then becoming faster, lower and softer".
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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