[
US
/ˈkəˌku, ˈkuˌku/
]
[ UK /kˈʊkuː/ ]
[ UK /kˈʊkuː/ ]
NOUN
- any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
VERB
- repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call
How To Use cuckoo In A Sentence
- He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
- Cuckoos are famous for laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.
- Myra wanted to tell it to SHUT UP as it cuckooed six times. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND
- The Cuckoo Fair is non-profit-making and benefits a range of local charities.
- Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls. Country Diary: North Derbyshire
- To investigate further, the biologists took to subalpine forests in the foothills of Mount Fuji, where the cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of red-flanked bush robins.
- The first problem that faces the cuckoo is to find a nest belonging to the right species of host.
- For months afterwards I had panic attacks - I didn't want to say anything to anybody because I thought I was going cuckoo.
- She points to the Oscar Party Legs, the ones a drunken Jack Nicholson tried to violate after he won for Cuckoo's Nest, and the understated Nonprofit Fundraiser Legs she wore to Jerry Lewis Telethons, and the fake-tanned State Dinner with Reagan and Gorbachev Legs that the Secretary of State made her cover up with a long hemline, because their shade matched Gorbachev's birthmark. Centipede
- It sure didn't take new Portland coach Mo Cheeks long to pick up the company line on resident cuckoo Rasheed Wallace.