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cuckoo
English
Etymology
From Middle English cokkou, probably from Old French cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic, perhaps via Latin cuc?lus (“cuckoo”). Displaced native Old English ??ac.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?k.u?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ku?.ku?/
- Hyphenation: cuc?koo
Noun
cuckoo (countable and uncountable, plural cuckoos)
- Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, that has a characteristic two-note call.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V Scene 1
- He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo, / By the bad voice.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V Scene 1
- The sound of that particular bird.
- The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
- The cuckoo clock itself.
- A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
- (slang) Someone who is crazy.
- Alternative form of coo-coo (“Barbadian food”)
Related terms
- cuckoo clock
- cuckoo-dove
- cuckoo-pint (“Arum italicum”)
- cuckoo shrike
- cuckoo's egg
- cloud-cuckoo-land
- cuculine (rare)
- cuckoo sign
Translations
Verb
cuckoo (third-person singular simple present cuckoos, present participle cuckooing, simple past and past participle cuckooed)
- To make the call of a cuckoo.
- To repeat something incessantly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
See also
- parrot (as a verb)
Adjective
cuckoo (comparative more cuckoo, superlative most cuckoo)
- (slang) Crazy; not sane.
Derived terms
- cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
- cuckooness
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coua
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From French coua, from Malagasy koa, an onomatopoeia for its cry.
Noun
coua (plural couas)
- A terrestrial bird of the genus Coua, in the cuckoo family.
Translations
French
Etymology
Coined 1821, from Malagasy koa, an onomatopoeia for its cry.
Noun
coua m (plural couas)
- coua
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