▪ I. gluck, n.
(glʌk)
[echoic: cf. glug n.2]
An inarticulate sound supposed to be expressed by this spelling. So with reduplication gluck-gluck.
| 1880 Chamb. Jrnl. No. 202. 635 It is as when we pour liquid from a full bottle; at first it runs intermittently, with a ‘gluk-gluk’. 1892 Sportsman 9 July 8/1 A clatter of knives and forks on plates..a ‘gluck-gluck’ of poured out drinks, and the merry laughter of the lunchers. 1894 Hall Caine Manxman 113 The swish of the scythe..the gluck of the wheels of the cart. |
▪ II. gluck, v.
(glʌk)
[echoic: cf. glug v.]
intr. To make a sound rendered by ‘gluck’.
| 1898 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 19 The blood glucked at the thrapple. |
Hence ˈglucking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1847 Leichhardt Overland Exped. ii. 29 The glucking bird—by which name, in consequence of its note, the bird may be distinguished—was heard through the night. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xvii. 120 A mellow glucking sound..continued long afterwards. |