cluckered

Updated: May 22, 2025

"Um!" said Redwood, after he had cluckered to the infant for a space. "Oom!" He told Mrs. Caddles the baby was a very fine child indeed, a thing that was getting well home to her intelligence and he ignored her altogether after that. Presently she left the barn through sheer insignificance. "Now you've started him, you'll have to keep on with him, you know," he said to Mrs. Skinner.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth