clucky

clucky
adj
Australian
broody, pregnant. From the image of a mother hen clucking over her clutch of eggs, the word has now been extended to mean pregnant, wanting to be preg-nant, or merely eagerly anticipating something.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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