pruck

Noun

pruck (countable and uncountable, plural prucks)

1. (countable, onomatopoeic) A soft staccato noise.
   • The egg drops out of the ovary, is pressed down the tubes toward the uterus. The sound is pruck pruck pruck pruck.1992, Deena Metzger, Tree and the Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the War Out of Them, →ISBN
   • “Pruck! Pruck!” clucked Mama Nsoso. “We will work tomorrow. Today we will peck and gobble big fat worms.”2013, Janice N. Harrington, Busy-Busy Little Chick, →ISBN
2. (Ireland, uncountable) A collection of items that are attractive but useless.
   • We were moochin' some pruck in a Pollock Dock shed, when he crashed to the ground and in minutes was dead.1997, John Campbell, The rose and the blade: new & selected poems, 1957-1997, →ISBN, page 105
   • I also knew that when I was back home and lit my own votive candle in the recess of the clay figure, the hollow of its eyes would glow softly like the inscrutable stare of the living creature and I would know again the lure and pull of Patagonia. 'More pruck,' said John as we hurried back to catch...2011, Brian Keenan, John McCarthy, Between Extremes, →ISBN, page 378