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noun
1.
a common European bird, Cuculus canorus, of the family Cuculidae, noted for its characteristic call and its brood parasitism.
2.
any of several other birds of the family Cuculidae.
3.
the call of the cuckoo, or an imitation of it.
4.
Slang. a crazy, silly, or foolish person; simpleton.
verb (used without object)
5.
to utter the call of the cuckoo or an imitation of it.
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verb (used with object)
6.
to repeat monotonously.
adjective
7.
Slang. crazy; silly; foolish.
8.
of, pertaining to, or like a cuckoo.
Origin:
1200–50; Middle English cuc(c)u, cuccuk(e) (imitative); compare Latin cucūlus, French coucou, German Kuckuk, Dutch koekoek, Modern Greek koûko
1200–50; Middle English cuc(c)u, cuccuk(e) (imitative); compare Latin cucūlus, French coucou, German Kuckuk, Dutch koekoek, Modern Greek koûko
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cuckoo
c.1240, from O.Fr. cucu, echoic of the male bird's mating cry (cf. Gk. kokkyx, L. cuculus, Skt. kokilas). Slang sense of "crazy" (adj.) is Amer.Eng. 1918, but noun meaning "stupid person" is first recorded 1581, perhaps from the bird's unvarying, oft-repeated call. The O.E. was geac, cognate with O.N.
EXPANDgaukr, source of Scot. and northern Eng. gowk. The Gmc. words were presumably originally echoic, too, but had drifted in form and were replaced by the Fr. form. Cuckoo clock is from 1789.
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