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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)

1. 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.

2. The sound of that particular bird.
3. The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
4. The cuckoo clock itself.
5. A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
6. (slang) Someone who is crazy.
7. 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)

1. To make the call of a cuckoo.
2. 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)

1. (slang) Crazy; not sane.

Derived terms

• cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
• cuckooness

English

Alternative forms

• yek

Etymology

From Middle English ?ek, ?eac, from Old English ??ac (“cuckoo, gawk”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?Au?-, *g?eg?Au?- (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Scots gowk (“cuckoo”), German Gauch (“cuckoo”), Danish gøg (“cuckoo”), Swedish gök (“cuckoo”). See also gawk, gowk.

Noun

yeke (plural yekes)

1. (Britain dialectal) A cuckoo.

Anagrams

• yeek