A brooding hen, especially one sitting on eggs; archaic or dialectal English term from Yiddish origins.
From Yiddish 'gluke' (brooding hen), which may be related to the clucking sound hens make; shows influence of Yiddish on English dialects.
Glucke preserves the onomatopoeia of chicken sounds across languages—the 'gluck' sound mimics a hen's cluck, and Yiddish speakers kept that sound alive in their word!
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