Meaning & use
Clucky
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(Chiefly Australian/New Zealand English) Wanting to have a baby, or, of a hen, inclined to sit on eggs to hatch them.
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Watching her friends with newborns made her feel clucky.
The old hen went clucky and refused to leave the nest box.
A note on using this word
'Clucky' comes directly from the clucking sound hens make when they become broody, and the term was later extended informally to humans wanting children.
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