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Rotten School #16:
Dumb Clucks
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Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
Compare Dumb Dodo; Dumb Ox. DUMB CLUCK a dumb cluck. A naive or stupid
person. Source: CHICKEN. The cluck in this metaphor is a metonymous name for
the chicken, which, although never given much credit for intelligence, is smart ...
Robert Allen Palmatier,
1995
It's as simple as that, but you've just got to keep thinking up there all the time."
LEON WAGNER These erudite words of Wagner's serve now as apt reminders
that the day of the big, dumb cluck sports stereotype is deader than the last rose
of ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... dullhead, ||dummkopf, dummy, idiot, ignoramus, moron, simpleton, stupid
dumb bunny n syn DUNCE, cluck, dimwit, 'dumb cluck, featherweight, lackwit,
nitwit, pinhead, simp, wantwit dumb cluck n syn DUNCE, ||cluck, dimwit, dumb
bunny, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc,
1988
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A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
'Cluck' has that meaning on its own, but 'dumb cluck' is very much a standard
phrase. The form of the word suggests that it is linked with a clucking hen, but it is
more likely to be a corruption of the Yiddish klutz, used of an inept blockhead.
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CAN LITTLE CHUCKIE COME OUT AND PLAY NOW?
Peg would place Dumb Cluck into the cage every morning before leaving for
work and let her out when we got home. One evening, following a very hot
summer day in Wells Creek, when we got home, we found a very dead chicken in
the cage ...
Dumb cluck. Words used to describe someone who has made a mistake or
probably many of them. "Gad, he is such a dumb cluck he doesn't know enough
to come in outta the rain." Euchred. Comes from the card game euchre (you-ker)
that is ...
Several of these are: ap- pleknocker town, chinwhisker town, clodville, clucktown
(from dumb cluck), hayseed town, hoosiertown, jaketown and jakeville,
yahootown, and yokeltown and yokelville. A "View from the Road. Some of the
best ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
S'i. dumb blonde (in films, etc) the stock character of a blonde-haired beauty of
limited intelligence; dumb -cane a tropical American araceous plant (
Dieffenbachia seguine) whose acrid juice swells the tongue: dumb -cluck a fool (
orig US: ...
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Wordbook of Australian Idiom: Aussie Slang
... as dogs shit' dumb cluck Brainless fool— 'You bloody idiot yer a dumb cluck'
dunnny To become irate or uncooperative— 'He became shirty and he spat the
dummy' dunno Showing annoyance or disgust with somebody or something— Ah
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Right now any dumb cluck with a lot of money and political might behind them can be elected. Just look at what's in Washington now! Joseph ... «Shorebeat, Окт 14»
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Even Hollywood comedy shows almost always have the intelligent wife and the dumb cluck husband. If they turned it around, the shrieks of ... «Huffington Post Canada, Окт 14»
While the viewers love Mark Holden it appears like the judges hate …
IS Seven trying to kill off the goose that laid the golden ratings? Not that you would call the learned barrister, Mark Holden, 60, a dumb cluck. «The Daily Telegraph, Окт 14»
Midnight in Obama's Garden of Good and Evil
Why those dumb cluck soldiers that put their own lives on the line? Just tools of American Imperialism. Wasn't that the message? Isn't that what ... «PJ Media, Окт 14»
Verizon Announces DROID DNA Software Update That 'Resolves …
A mother would rather believe her pretty girl is lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were ... «Android Police, Сен 14»
'Under the Skin' both the movie and its star are naked
For all the supposed finery of his new wardrobe, we kids know when the credulous dumb cluck isn't wearing a stitch. While we're on the subject ... «Buffalo News, Апр 14»