1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Glossement, a clucking.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Bergerac’s Com. Hist., I. 39. The terrible clucking of the Toads.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Poultry, You must reject all those Hens, notwithstanding their Clucking.
1865. Farrar, Language, 44. The Fuegians, whose language is an inarticulate clucking.
1872. Darwin, Emotions, xii. 286. The Australians often evince astonishment by a clucking noise.
1881. Echo, 17 Jan., 4/2. Grouse … will shortly begin pairing. We have heard the ‘cluck-clucking’ of the cocks already.
