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glousser

French, verb/ɡlu.se/

glousser is spelled G-L-O-U-S-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 72,190th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glousser is a French verb meaning “to cluck (make the noise of a chicken)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire son cri de communication avec ses congénères, en parlant de la poule”.

What does glousser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to cluck (make the noise of a chicken)

  2. 2

    to gobble (make the noise of a turkey)

  3. 3

    to chortle, to giggle

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Faire son cri de communication avec ses congénères, en parlant de la poule. 2. Crier en parlant de la perdrix, de la dinde ou de la gelinotte. 3. Pousser de petits cris à la manière de rires étouffés, en parlant d’humains.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of glousser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • gloussant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • gloussé participle past
  • glousse first-person indicative present
  • glousses indicative present second-person
  • gloussons first-person indicative plural
  • gloussez indicative plural present
  • gloussent indicative plural present
  • gloussais first-person imperfect indicative
  • gloussait imperfect indicative singular
  • gloussions first-person imperfect indicative
  • gloussiez imperfect indicative plural
  • gloussaient imperfect indicative plural
  • gloussai first-person historic indicative
  • gloussas historic indicative past
  • gloussa historic indicative past
  • gloussâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce glousser?

  • /ɡlu.se/
  • \ɡlu.se\
  • [ɡlu.se]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to glousser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is glousser in French?

glousser appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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