Cluck vs. Pluck — What's the Difference?

The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.

To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick

A sound similar to this.

To pull out the hair or feathers of

(Informal) A stupid or foolish person.

To remove abruptly or forcibly

To utter the characteristic sound of a hen.

To give an abrupt pull to; tug at

To make a sound similar to that of a hen, as in coaxing a horse.

(Music) To sound (the strings of an instrument) by pulling and releasing them with the fingers or a plectrum.

To call by making the characteristic sound of a hen or a similar sound.

To give an abrupt pull; tug.

To express by clucking

The act or an instance of plucking.

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit.

Any sound similar to this.

The heart, liver, windpipe, and lungs of a slaughtered animal.

A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

(intransitive) To make such a sound.

(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.

To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.

To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).

To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.

The call of a hen to her chickens.

To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.

A click. See 3d Click, 2.

Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)

An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.

Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

Cheap wine.

To pull; to draw.

Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.

To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

To reject at an examination for degrees.

To make a motion of pulling or twitching; - usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

The lyrie.

The trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury

The act of pulling and releasing a taut cord

Pull or pull out sharply;

Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;

Strip of feathers;

Look for and gather;