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clucking one's tongue

clucking one's tongue is the present participle and gerund of cluck one's tongue.

Meaning of cluck one's tongue

Verb

cluck one's tongue (third-person singular simple present clucks one's tongue, present participle clucking one's tongue, simple past and past participle clucked one's tongue)

  1. To click one's tongue.
    • The spring had got into his blood, too; he felt the need for letting steam escape, and clucked his tongue, flourishing his whip, wheeling his horses […]1906, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, Volume I, Chapter

Questions about clucking one's tongue

What is clucking one's tongue the present participle and gerund of?
Clucking one's tongue is the present participle and gerund of cluck one's tongue.

Words near clucking one's tongue in the dictionary

  1. cluckers
  2. clucketh
  3. cluckier
  4. cluckiest
  5. clucking
  6. clucking one's tongue
  7. cluckings
  8. clucks
  9. clucks one's tongue
  10. cluckt
  11. clucky

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