单词 | clucker |
释义 | cluckern. 1. Originally: a hen used for breeding, or one inclined to brood (cf. cluck n. 2). In later use also more generally: a chicken or (occasionally) other clucking bird. Cf. clocker n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > young or chicken chickenOE chicka1398 poulta1425 chicken birdc1450 peepera1586 peepling1594 game chicken1674 peep1688 spring chicken1765 clucker1779 chickabiddy1785 chicklet1836 chickie1851 wing-chick1885 pee-pee1890 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > at or of specific stage, condition, or habits pulletc1400 brood-hen1526 smoke-hen1577 Shrovetide hen1598 shroving hen1611 poulard1733 clucker1779 1779 E. Wolff En Dansk og Engelsk Ord-bog at Kagler A clucker, a brood-hen. 1838 Cleveland Observer 2 Aug. 76/3 Whenever any one of them [sc. hens] was disposed to set, viz. as soon as she began to cluck, she was separated from the others... These cluckers were well attended and well fed. 1922 Los Angeles Times 9 Jan. ii. 1/2 (heading) Chickens land him in jail... Man with ‘cluckers’ in sack is nabbed. 2008 Sunday Sun (Nexis) 29 June (Features section) 38 Anya's clucker, Goldie, is currently incubating a dozen eggs. 2. A person given to clucking to express disapproval, irritation, commiseration, etc., typically while engaging in gossip or idle chatter. Cf. cluck v. 4d.Also in cluck-clucker (cf. note at cluck v. 4b). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person chaterestrea1250 jangler1303 babbler1366 blabbererc1375 jangleressc1386 talkerc1386 clatterer1388 cacklera1400 languager1436 carperc1440 mamblerc1450 praterc1500 jackdaw?1520 chewet1546 flibbertigibbet1549 clatterfart1552 patterer1552 piec1557 long tongue?1562 prattler1567 piet1574 twattler1577 brawler1581 nimble-chops1581 pratepie1582 roita1585 whittera1585 full-mouth1589 interprater1591 chatterer1592 pianet1594 bablatrice1595 parakeet1598 Bow-bell cockney1600 prattle-basket1602 bagpipe1603 worder1606 babliaminy1608 chougha1616 gabbler1624 blatterer1627 magpie1632 prate-apace1636 rattlea1637 clack1640 blateroon1647 overtalker1654 prate-roast1671 prattle-box1671 babelard1678 twattle-basket1688 mouth1699 tongue-pad1699 chatterista1704 rattler1709 morologist1727 chatterbox1774 palaverer1788 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 slangwhanger1807 nash-gab1816 pump1823 windbag1827 big mouth1834 gasbag1841 chattermag1844 tattle-monger1848 rattletrap1850 gasser1855 mouth almighty1864 clucker1869 talky-talky1869 gabster1870 loudmouth1870 tonguester1871 palaverista1873 mag1876 jawsmith1887 spieler1894 twitterer1895 yabbler1901 wordster1904 poofter1916 blatherer1920 ear-bender1922 burbler1923 woofer1934 ear-basher1944 motormouth1955 yacker1960 yammerer1978 jay- 1869 Boston Daily Advertiser 1 July A western paper irreverently styles a woman's rights' convention a meeting of Q Cluckers. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. June 355/2 People were mistaken who took Gilbert for an eternal clucker, for he could be stern enough. 1991 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. e17/3 Hysterical nonsense, the neos and cluck-cluckers say as the stock market surges. 2015 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 9 Aug. 3 p Up against this collection of whiners, blowhards, preeners, hand-wringers and cluckers, it didn't take all that much to capture the lion's share of attention. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † cluckerv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To cluck (in senses 1b and 4b of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of hen) clockOE cacklec1230 chuckc1405 keckle1513 cluck1580 chuckle1690 clack1712 clucker1904 1904 H. G. Wells Food of Gods ii. i. 156 ‘Um!’ said Redwood, after he had cluckered to the infant for a space. 1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 91 His six hens cluckered and flucked to perch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1779v.1904 |
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