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Definition: Cuckoo |
CuckooNoun1. A man who is a stupid fool. 2. Any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail. Verb1. Repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cuckoo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
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Bible | Cuckoo (Heb. shahaph), from a root meaning "to be lean; slender." This bird is mentioned only in Lev. 11:16 and Deut. 14:15 (R.V., "seamew"). Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by "petrel" or "shearwater" (Puffinus cinereus), which is found on the coast of Syria; others think it denotes the "sea-gull" or "seamew." The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) feeds on reptiles and large insects. It is found in Asia and Africa as well as in Europe. It only passes the winter in Palestine. The Arabs suppose it to utter the cry _Yakub_, and hence they call it _tir el-Yakub_; i.e., "Jacob's bird." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a cuckoo, prognosticates a sudden ending of a happy life caused by the downfall of a dear friend. To dream that you hear a cuckoo, denotes the painful illness of the death of some absent loved one, or accident to some one in your family. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Cuckoo A cuckold. The cuckoo occupies the nest and eats the eggs of other birds; and Dr. Johnson says "it was usual to alarm a husband at the approach of an adulterer by calling out `Cuckoo,' which by mistake was applied in time to the person warned." Green calls the cuckoo "the cuckold's quirister" (Quip for an Upstart Courtier, 1620). This is an instance of how words get in time perverted from their original meaning. The Romans used to call an adulterer a "cuckoo," as "Te cuculum uxor ex lustris rapit " (Plautus: Asinaria, v. 3), and the allusion was simple and correct; but Dr. Johnson's explanation will hardly satisfy anyone for the modern perversion of the word. "The cuckoo, then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo! Cuckoo! cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!" Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2. Cuckoo (A). A watch or clock. The French have the same slang word coucou for a watch or clock. Of course, the word is derived from the German cuckoo-clocks, which, instead of striking the hour, cry cuckoo. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Common Cuckoo Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae Genus: Cucullus Species: canorus Binomial name Cucullus canorus The Common Cuckoo (Cucullus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, the coucals, and the Hoatzin.
It is a widespead summer migrant to Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which lays its eggs in the nests particularly of Dunnocks, Meadow Pipits, and Reed Warblers.
Female Cuckoos favour a particular host species, and lay eggs which match that species' in colour and pattern. The exception is in the case of the Dunnock, where the Cuckoo's egg has no resemblance to its hosts' blue eggs. This is thought to be because the Dunnock is a recent host, and has not acquired the ability to distinguish eggs.
The chick which hatches from the egg laid in the other species' nest methodically evicts all other occupants of the nest, a behaviour that was first described by Edward Jenner. This is necessary since it is a much larger bird than its hosts, and needs to monopolise the parents' food supplies.
This cuckoo is a greyish bird with a slender body, long tail and strong legs. The females only are sometimes brown, the ”hepatic” phase. It looks like a small bird of prey in flight, although the wings stay below the horizontal.
It is a bird of open country. Its food is insects, with hairy caterpillars, which are distasteful to many birds, being a speciality.
The cuckoo group gets its English and scientific names from the call of the male Common Cuckoo, usually given from an open perch, goo-ko. The female has a loud bubbling call. In England, hearing the call of the Cuckoo is regarded as the first harbinger of spring, and The Times newspaper notoriously features correspondence every year reporting the first calls.
The word "cuckold" derives from the Cuckoo's practice of tricking other birds into raising its young.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Common Cuckoo."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cuckoos Great Spotted Cuckoo (adult; juvenile) Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae The Cuculidae or cuckoos are an order of near passerine birds, many of which are brood parasites in the nests of birds of other species.
The best-known example is the European Common Cuckoo. The baby which hatches from the egg laid in another species' nest methodically evicts all other occupants.
The family also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the coucals. The coucals are not nest parasites and, unlike many cuckoos, lay their eggs on the ground. These large tropical cuckoos are capable of taking vertebrate prey such as lizards.
The Cuculiformes order, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos (perhaps better considered as a separate order, Musophagiformes) and the unique Hoatzin, which was previously classified in the Galliformes. The taxonomy of the latter enigmatic species, however, remains in dispute.
These birds are of variable size with slender bodies, long tails and strong legs. Most occur in forests, but some are birds of more open country. Most are insect eaters, with hairy caterpillars, which are avoided by many birds, being a speciality.
The group gets its English and scientific names from the call of the Common Cuckoo, which is also familar from cuckoo clocks.
Species are:
- Order Cuculiformes'''
- Family Musophagidae: turacos and allies
- Family Cuculidae
- Genus Cucullus Typical cuckoos
- Common Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus
- Sulawesi Hawk-Cuckoo, Cuculus crassirostris
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Cuculus sparverioides
- Common Hawk-Cuckoo, Cuculus varius
- Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo, Cuculus vagans
- Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo, Cuculus fugax
- Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo, Cuculus pectoralis
- Red-chested Cuckoo, Cuculus solitarius
- Black Cuckoo, Cuculus clamosus
- Indian Cuckoo, Cuculus micropterus
- African Cuckoo, Cuculus gularis
- Oriental Cuckoo, Cuculus saturatus
- Horsfield's Cuckoo, Cuculus horsfieldi
- Lesser Cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus
- Madagascar Cuckoo, Cuculus rochii
- Pallid Cuckoo, Cuculus pallidus
- Genus Clamator
- Great Spotted Cuckoo, Clamator glandarius
- Pied Cuckoo, Clamator jacobinus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo, Clamator levaillantii
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Clamator coromandus
- Genus Centropus Coucals
- Senegal Coucal, Centropus senegalensis
- Bay Coucal, Centropus celebensis
- Rufous Coucal, Centropus unirufus
- Black-faced Coucal, Centropus melanops
- Sunda Coucal, Centropus nigrorufus
- Buff-headed Coucal, Centropus milo
- Goliath Coucal, Centropus goliath
- Violaceous Coucal, Centropus violaceus
- Greater Black Coucal, Centropus menbeki
- Pied Coucal, Centropus ateralbus
- Pheasant Coucal, Centropus phasianinus
- Kai Coucal, Centropus spilopterus
- Lesser Black Coucal, Centropus bernsteini
- Biak Coucal, Centropus chalybeus
- Short-toed Coucal, Centropus rectunguis
- Black-hooded Coucal, Centropus steerii
- Greater Coucal, Centropus sinensis
- Andaman Coucal, Centropus andamanensis
- Philippine Coucal, Centropus viridis
- Madagascar Coucal, Centropus toulou
- Black Coucal, Centropus grillii
- Green-billed Coucal, Centropus chlororhynchus
- Lesser Coucal, Centropus bengalensis
- Black-throated Coucal, Centropus leucogaster
- Gabon Coucal, Centropus anselli
- Blue-headed Coucal, Centropus monachus
- Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus
- White-browed Coucal, Centropus superciliosus
- Genus Geococcyx Roadrunners
- Greater Roadrunner, Geococcyx californiana
- Lesser Roadrunner, Geococcyx velox
- Genus Coua Couas
- Running Coua, Coua cursor
- Giant Coua, Coua gigas
- Coquerel's Coua, Coua coquereli
- Red-breasted Coua, Coua serriana
- Red-fronted Coua, Coua reynaudii
- Red-capped Coua, Coua ruficeps
- Crested Coua, Coua cristata
- Verreaux's Coua, Coua verreauxi
- Blue Coua, Coua caerulea
- Genus Pachycoccyx
- Thick-billed Cuckoo, Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Genus Cercococcyx, long-tailed cuckoos
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Cercococcyx mechowi
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, Cercococcyx olivinus
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Cercococcyx montanus
- Genus Cacomantis
- Banded Bay Cuckoo, Cacomantis sonneratii
- Plaintive Cuckoo, Cacomantis merulinus
- Brush Cuckoo, Cacomantis variolosus
- Moluccan Cuckoo, Cacomantis heinrichi
- Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo, Cacomantis castaneiventris
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Cacomantis flabelliformis
- Genus Chrysococcyx
- Black-eared Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx osculans
- Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx basalis
- Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx lucidus
- Rufous-throated Bronze-Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx ruficollis
- White-eared Bronze-Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx meyeri
- Little Bronze-Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx minutillus
- Asian Emerald Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx maculatus
- Violet Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Klaas' Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx klaas
- African Emerald Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Dideric Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx caprius
- Genus Rhamphomantis
- Long-billed Cuckoo, Rhamphomantis megarhynchus
- Genus Surniculusdrongo-cuckoos
- Asian Drongo-Cuckoo, Surniculus lugubris
- Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo, Surniculus velutinus
- Genus Caliechthrus
- White-crowned Koel, Caliechthrus leucolophus
- Genus Microdynamis
- Dwarf Koel, Microdynamis parva
- Genus Eudynamys
- Black-billed Koel, Eudynamys melanorhyncha
- Asian Koel, Eudynamys scolopacea
- Australian Koel, Eudynamys cyanocephala
- Long-tailed Koel, Eudynamys taitensis
- Genus Scythrops
- Channel-billed Cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae
- Genus Ceuthmochares
- Yellowbill, Ceuthmochares aereus
- Genus Phaenicophaeus, malkohas
- Black-bellied Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus diardi
- Chestnut-bellied Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus sumatranus
- Blue-faced Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
- Green-billed Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus tristis
- Sirkeer Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus leschenaultii
- Raffles' Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus chlorophaeus
- Red-billed Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus javanicus
- Yellow-billed Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus calyorhynchus
- Chestnut-breasted Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus curvirostris
- Red-faced Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus
- Red-crested Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus superciliosus
- Scale-feathered Malkoha, Phaenicophaeus cumingi
- Genus Carpococcyx, ground-cuckoos
- Sumatran Ground-Cuckoo, Carpococcyx viridis
- Bornean Ground-Cuckoo, Carpococcyx radiatus
- Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo, Carpococcyx renauldi
- Genus Coccyzus
- Dwarf Cuckoo, Coccyzus pumilus
- Ash-colored Cuckoo, Coccyzus cinereus
- Black-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
- Pearly-breasted Cuckoo, Coccyzus euleri
- Mangrove Cuckoo, Coccyzus minor
- Cocos Island Cuckoo, Coccyzus ferrugineus
- Dark-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus melacoryphus
- Gray-capped Cuckoo, Coccyzus lansbergi
- Genus Saurothera, lizard cuckoos
- Great Lizard-Cuckoo Saurothera merlini
- Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo, Saurothera vieilloti
- Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo, Saurothera vetula
- Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo, Saurothera longirostris
- Genus Hyetornis
- Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo, Hyetornis pluvialis
- Bay-breasted Cuckoo, Hyetornis rufigularis
- Genus Piaya
- Squirrel Cuckoo, Piaya cayana
- Black-bellied Cuckoo, Piaya melanogaster
- Little Cuckoo, Piaya minuta
- Genus Crotophaga, the anis
- Greater Ani, Crotophaga major
- Smooth-billed Ani, Crotophaga ani
- Groove-billed Ani, Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Genus Guira
- Guira Cuckoo, Guira guira
- Genus Tapera
- Striped Cuckoo, Tapera naevia
- Genus Dromococcyx
- Pheasant Cuckoo, Dromococcyx phasianellus
- Pavonine Cuckoo, Dromococcyx pavoninus
- Genus Morococcyx
- Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, Morococcyx erythropygus
- Genus Neomorphus
- Scaled Ground-Cuckoo, Neomorphus squamiger
- Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, Neomorphus geoffroyi
- Banded Ground-Cuckoo, Neomorphus radiolosus
- Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo, Neomorphus rufipennis
- Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo Neomorphus pucheranii
- Family Opisthocomidae: Hoatzin
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cuckoo."
Synonyms: CuckooSynonyms: bozo (n), fathead (n), goof (n), goose (n), jackass (n), twat (n), zany (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imitation | Imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate. |
Instantaneity | Clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra; ghurry. |
Repetition | Cuckoo; (imitation); reverberation; drumming; (roll); renewal; (restoration). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cuckoo |
| English words defined with "cuckoo": ani ♦ black-billed cuckoo ♦ Channel bill, Chaparral hen, Coccyzus erythropthalmus, coucal, Crow pheasant, Cuckoo clock, Cuckoo maid, Cuculidae, Cuculus canorus ♦ Elleck, European cuckoo ♦ family Cuculidae, Frog hopper, Froth insect ♦ Gowk ♦ Pheasant coucal ♦ Rain fowl ♦ spittle insect ♦ Titling, Toad spittle ♦ Wittol, Wood sore ♦ Zygodactylous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cuckoo": Bow-wow Word ♦ chaparral bird, Cherry Trees and the Cuckoo, Cuckoo Oats and Woodcock Hay ♦ Gotham, Gouk ♦ Ladies' Smocks ♦ Welsh Ambassador. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cuckoo": Coccyx. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda) I can hear the cuckoo singing in the cuckooberry tree (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) Nicholas? It must be the only church clock with a cuckoo in it (To the Manor Born; writing credit: Thomas Brinx; James Krüss) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cuckoo Patrol (1967) The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965) Cuckoo on a Choo-Choo (1952) The Cuckoo Clock (1950) Cuckoo College (1949) | |
Song Titles | Cuckoo, The (performing artist: Katy Moffatt) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chief Petty Officers study books on "Personnel Management", in the battleship's "Chief's Quarters", circa 1923-25. Note ornate cuckoo clock on the bulkhead in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Little known occupations: tuning cuckoo clocks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Clock" by Grenville Tryon Commentary: "A wall cuckoo clock." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cuckoo clock chiming three o'clock. | | Cuckoo call. |
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| "Cuckoo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.19% of the time. "Cuckoo" is used about 386 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.19% | 352 | 15,213 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.22% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (common) | 2.59% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 386 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cuckoo": Cuckoo bee ♦ cuckoo bread ♦ cuckoo clock ♦ Cuckoo dove ♦ Cuckoo falcon ♦ Cuckoo fish ♦ cuckoo flower ♦ cuckoo in the nest ♦ Cuckoo maid ♦ cuckoo mate ♦ cuckoo pint ♦ Cuckoo ray ♦ cuckoo spit ♦ Cuckoo spittle ♦ european cuckoo ♦ ground cuckoo ♦ pheasant cuckoo ♦ young cuckoo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cuckoo": cuckoo-bee, cuckoo-bees, cuckoo-bird, cuckoo-bumblebee, cuckoo-clock, cuckoo-flowers, cuckoo-pint, cuckoo-spit. | |
Ending with "cuckoo": cloud-cuckoo. | |
Containing "cuckoo": cloud-cuckoo-land. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cuckoo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qyqe (gowk), këngë e qyqës, i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, Daffy, dare devil, daring, desperate, devil may care, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball, wacky). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرر على نحو رتيب, وقوق, وقواقي, وقواق طائر, الوقوقة صوت الوقواق, أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кукувица (gowk), куку, кукане, кукам, глупчо (pin head, silly), повтарям монотонно (chant), побъркан (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, cockeyed, crank, crazy, demented, having a screw loose, light-head, light-headed, mental, moonstruck, nutty, touched). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鵑 , 杜鹃, 杜鵑鳥 . (various references) | |
Czech | kukaèka. (various references) | |
Danish | gøg. (various references) | |
Dutch | koekoek (area, areaway, port, skylight). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kukolo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | geykur. (various references) | |
Farsi | فاخته(ج.ش.) (Dove), صدای فاخته دراوردن , دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Crazy, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Gaga, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic). (various references) | |
Finnish | käki. (various references) | |
French | coucou. (various references) | |
German | Kuckuck (bailiff's seal, devil, peekaboo). (various references) | |
Greek | κούκος (cuckoo gurnard, red gurnard, soldier). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קוקיה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kakukk (gowk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | semacam burung tekukur, kedasih. (various references) | |
Irish | cuach. (various references) | |
Italian | cuculo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 霍公鳥 , 蜀魂 , 郭公 , 田鵑 , 時鳥 , 杜鵑 , 杜宇 , 沓手鳥 , 子規 , コカの木 (coca tree, Coca-Cola, cocaine, cockpit, cocoa, COCOM, COCOM list, Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Area, coquette, coquetterie, coquettish, obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle, shell), 不如帰 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほととぎす, かっこう (appearance, bishop, descent, each clause, each item, form, manner, moderateness, posture, shape, suitability), コキュ . (various references) | |
Korean | 뻐꾸기. (various references) | |
Manx | cooag (falsetto). (various references) | |
Norwegian | gjøk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckoocay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cuco (gowk, pumpkin-head). (various references) | |
Romanian | cucu, cuc (gowk). (various references) | |
Russian | разиня (chaw-bacon, gawk), кукушка (gowk), куковать кукшка, куковать, кукование, глупец (buzzard, dweeb, fool, gander, lump). (various references) | |
Scottish | cuthag, cubhag, cu'ag, cubhag. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kukavica (chicken-liver, coward, dastard, faintheart, gowk, recreant), kukati (complain, gripe, lament, yammer), budala (bullhead, cockeye, dolt, dumdum, fool, gaby, gawk, half wit, jackass, josser, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, sap, tomfool). (various references) | |
Shona | haya (cuckoo bird). (various references) | |
Spanish | cuco (dinky). (various references) | |
Swedish | gök (cockoo, fellow). (various references) | |
Turkish | kuku (Fanny, quim, snatch), kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), guguklamak, guguk kuşu, guguk, aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ikatдk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | роззява (calf, caravan, chaw-bacon, goose, softy, yak, zany), телепень (addle-head, ass, blockhead, boob, chuckle-head, chump, clod, dunderhead, fathead, gawk, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head), кукати, кування (forging, hammering, smithing), зозуля (gowk), здурілий (gaga, muzzy, silly), божевільний (addle-brained, addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gàn gàn (touched). (various references) | |
Welsh | cwcw. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kokkyx. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cuculus, Cuculus canorus, RM:cucu. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | geac. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai strouqon kai glauka kai laron kai ta omoia autw kai ieraka kai ta omoia autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Strutionem et noctuam et larum et accipitrem iuxta genus suum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | `an ostriche, and a nyyt crowe, and a coote, and an hawke after his kynde; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The estrich, the nightcrowe, the cocow, the sparowhauke and al the kynde: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ang abestros, ug ang mananagit sa gabii, ug ang laro, ug ang manaol ingon sa ilang matang, |
| Croatian | noj, kobac i galeb; lastavica svake vrste; |
| Danish | Strudsen, Takmasfuglen, Mågen, de forskellige Arter af Høge, |
| Dutch | En de struis, en de nachtuil, en de koekoek, en de sperwer naar zijn aard; |
| Finnish | kamelikurki, pääskynen, kalalokki ja jalohaukkalajit, |
| French | l`autruche, le hibou, la mouette, l`épervier et ce qui est de son espèce; |
| German | den Strauß, die Nachteule, den Kuckuck, den Sperber mit seiner Art, |
| Hungarian | A strucz, a bagoly, a kakuk és a karvaly az õ nemével. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan burung unta dan burung hantu dan camar dan elang sejenis-jenisnya, |
| Italian | lo struzzo, la civetta, il gabbiano e ogni specie di sparviere, |
| Korean | 타 조 와, 다 호 마 스 와, 갈 매 기 와, 새 매 종 류 와, |
| Maori | Me te otereti, me te kahu po, me te koekoea, me te kahu, me nga mea pera, |
| Norwegian | og strutsen og gjøken og måken, og høken efter sine arter, |
| Portuguese | o avestruz, o mocho, a gaivota, o gavião segundo a sua espécie, |
| Rumanian | struyul, bufniya, pescqrelul, coroiul wi tot ce yine de neamul lui; |
| Russian | УФТБХУБ, УПЧЩ, ЮБКЛЙ Й СУФТЕВБ У РПТПДПА ЕЗП, |
| Swedish | strutsen, tahemasfågeln, fiskmåsen, höken med dess arter, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cuckoo": cuckooed, cuckooflower, cuckooflowers, cuckooing, cuckoopint, cuckoopints, cuckoos. (additional references) | |
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"Cuckoo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cecco, Chucko, Cissokho, Cissoko, cockup, Cucc, cucco, Cuck, cuckel, cucko, Cuco, cukoo, Cukor, Mukoko, Ucko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-k-o-o-u" | |
-2 letters: coco, cook. | |
-3 letters: coo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-k-o-o-u" | |
+1 letter: cuckoos. | |
+2 letters: cuckooed. | |
+3 letters: cuckooing, woodchuck. | |
+4 letters: cockalorum, cuckoopint, stuccowork, woodchucks. | |
+5 letters: cockalorums, cuckoopints, stuccoworks. | |
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