cục tác
Definitions
- Onomatopoeia:
- The clucking sound of a hen: "cục tác" is an onomatopoeic word that imitates the characteristic sound made by a hen, often when it has laid an egg or is calling its chicks.
- To cluck: As a verb, it describes the action of a hen making this sound.
Usage Examples
Onomatopoeia:
- Nghe tiếng cục tác từ chuồng gà. (Hear the clucking from the chicken coop.)
- Con gà mái kêu "cục tác, cục tác". (The hen goes "cluck, cluck".)
Verb (informal usage):
- Con gà đang cục tác ầm ĩ. (The chicken is clucking noisily.)
Advanced Usage
- "cục ta cục tác": A common, playful reduplication of the sound, often used in children's rhymes or to emphasize the repetitive nature of the clucking.
- Bài hát thiếu nhi: "Con gà cục tác cục ta cục tác". (The children's song: "The chicken clucks cluck-cluck cluck-cluck".)
Variants and Related Words
- Cục cạc (onomatopoeia): A variant sometimes used, though less common, potentially imitating a rougher or different bird sound.
- Cục (onomatopoeia): A shortened, informal form, often used in quick speech or online chat.
- Con gà kêu cục cục. (The chicken goes cluck cluck.)
Synonyms
- Kêu cục tác (verb phrase): To cluck.
- Kêu (general verb): To call, to cry (out). Used with the specific sound: (a chicken cries/calls).
Related Phrases
- Gà cục tác: A hen that clucks; often used to refer to a hen specifically.
- Con gà cục tác đẻ trứng. (The clucking hen laid an egg.)
Related Idioms
- Nuôi ong tay áo, nuôi gà *cục tác*: (To keep bees in one's sleeve, to keep clucking chickens). This is a playful, modern twist on the traditional idiom "nuôi ong tay áo" (to nurture a snake in one's bosom), humorously adding the noisy, obvious element of clucking chickens to imply a secret that is poorly kept or an action with obvious consequences.
- Giấu chuyện đó khó lắm, đừng có nuôi ong tay áo, nuôi gà cục tác. (Keeping that a secret is hard, don't do something so obvious.)