cluck vs hum

cluck

noun
  • Any sound similar to this. 

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

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

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

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

  • To make such a sound. 

  • to suffer withdrawal from heroin. 

hum

noun
  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

intj
  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

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