cloquear

To cluck — the sound a hen makes. The more widely used counterpart to clocar for the same barnyard sound, and the one more likely to appear in dictionaries and children's books about farm animals.

• La gallina cloqueaba nerviosa antes de poner el huevo. — The hen clucked nervously before laying the egg.
• Los pollitos siguieron a la gallina que cloqueaba. — The chicks followed the clucking hen.
• Se escuchaba cloquear a las gallinas del corral vecino. — You could hear the hens clucking in the neighboring yard.

Don't confuse cloquear (hen clucking) with cloroformizar or other clo- verbs in this batch — they're unrelated despite the similar start.

Often confused with clocar.