Cluck Definition
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
(UK, drug slang) To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
Origin of Cluck
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From Middle English clocken, clokken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klukken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English clokken from Old English cloccian
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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