chk chk.

interj.  a cluck of sympathy over someone’s bad luck, as in the novel Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis.

chk chk chk.

interj.  an expression of extreme irritation.

<“Chk, chk, chk.”  Muttering meaningless syllables of exasperation, Kate struggled to let go of her thoughts, to let go of the hatred of Archer Canby that burned in her joints and shriveled her body.  —Faith Sullivan, What a Woman Must Do: A Novel.>

n.  a blackbird’s alarm cluck.

<He watched [his blackbird spirit helpers] intently, as if they might tell him something of great import, when suddenly they took to the air as one, clucking a chk, chk, chk of alarm, and flew off in a tight cloud down the river.  —John Byrne Cooke, The Snowblind Moon.>

n.  a call to lure one’s timid conscience.

<Come, my conscience, come, little chicken, chk chk chk.  Hush now: here’s fodder.  —Georg Buchner, Danton’s Death.>

n.  the sound of a garden sprinkler; see also chk-chk-chk.

<At 2:00 a.m., Uwanda Docksteader heard the front yard sprinklers come on, the pipes groaning low—an almost hurtful sound—then the sprinkler heads slowly beginning to rotate with their calming chk, chk, chk.  —Curtis Oberhansly, Downwinders: An Atomic Tale.>

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