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Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkʊkuː/ or IPA: /ˈkuːkuː/
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Adjective
cuckoo (comparative more cuckoo, superlative most cuckoo)
- Crazy; not sane.
Noun
cuckoo (plural cuckoos)
- Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae (from Latin cuculus (“cuckoo”)), 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
- The sound of that particular bird.
- The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
- Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase 'A cuckoo in the nest'.)
- Someone who is crazy.
Related terms
Translations
the bird
- Albanian: qyqja (sq)
- Arabic: وقواق (ar) (waqwaaq) m
- Armenian: կկու (hy) (kku)
- Basque: kuku (eu)
- Belarusian: зязюля (be) (zjazjúlja)
- Breton: koukoug (br)
- Bulgarian: обикновена кукувица (bg) (obiknovena kukuvica) f
- Catalan: cucut (ca) m
- Chechen: оттйокх
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 杜鵑 (cmn), 杜鹃 (cmn) (dùjuān), 布穀 (cmn), 布谷 (cmn) (bùgǔ)
- Cornish: koukou (kw) f
- Czech: kukačka (cs) f
- Danish: (♂♀) gøg (da) c, (♂♀ offspring, young) gøgeunge (da) c
- Dutch: koekoek (nl) m
- Esperanto: (♂♀) kukolo (eo), (♂) virkukolo (eo), (♀) kukolino (eo), (♂♀ offspring) kukolido (eo), (♂ offspring) virkukolido (eo), (♀ offspring) kukolidino (eo)
- Estonian: kägu (et)
- Faroese: geykur (fo)
- Finnish: käki (fi)
- French: coucou (fr) m
- Friulian: cuc, cuců, cucuc
- Galician: cuco (gl) m
- German: (♂♀) Kuckuck (de) m, (♂) Kuckucksmännchen (de) n, (♀) Kuckucksweibchen (de) n, (obsolete ♂♀) Gauch (de) m, (Gauche (de) m pl, Gäuche (de) m pl)
- Greek: κούκος (el) (kúkos)
- Hebrew: קוּקִיָה (he) (kukiyá) f
- Hungarian: kakukk (hu)
- Icelandic: gaukur (is) m
- Ido: kukulo (io)
- Inari Sami: kiehâ
- Irish: cuach (ga)
- Italian: cuculo (it) m, cucù (it) m
- Japanese: カッコウ (ja) (kakkō)
- Jèrriais: coucou m
- Korean: 뻐꾸기 (ko) (ppeokkugi), 두견새 (ko), (杜鵑새, dugyeonsae)
- Ladin: cuch
- Latgalian: dzagiuze
- Latin: cuculus (la) m
- Latvian: dzeguze (lv)
- Lithuanian: gegutė (lt)
- Livonian: keg, kukūlind
- Low German: Kuukuuk (nds) m, kukuuk (nds) m
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- Lower Sorbian: kukawa
- Lule Sami: giehka, ránatjalådde
- Luxembourgish: Guckuck (lb) m
- Macedonian: кукавица (mk) (kukávica) f
- Maltese: daqquqa kaħla (mt) f
- Manx: cooag (gv) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gjøk (no) m
- Nynorsk: gauk (nn) m
- Occitan: coguol (oc) m, coguou (oc) m, cocut (oc) m
- Old English: ġēac (ang) m
- Old Norse: gaukr m
- Polish: kukułka (pl) f
- Portuguese: cuco (pt) m
- Romani: kukuriezo m, chuhuriezo m, kukuriashka f, chuhuriashka f
- Romanian: cuc (ro)
- Romansch: cucu (rm)
- Russian: кукушка (ru) (kukúška) f
- Sami: giehka
- Sardinian: cucu (sc), cucui (sc), cucuperra (sc), cucuperrai (sc), cucuevvai (sc), cucumarei (sc)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuthag (gd) f, cuach (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кукавица (sh) f
- Roman: kukavica (sh) f
- Skolt Sami: ǩiõkk
- Slovak: kukučka (sk) f
- Slovene: kukavica (sl) f
- Southern Sami: gïege
- Spanish: cuco (es) m, cuclillo (es) m
- Swahili: kekeo (sw)
- Swedish: gök (sv) c
- Tamil: குயில் (ta) (kuyil)
- Telugu: కోకిల (te)
- Turkish: guguk (tr)
- Ukrainian: зозуля (uk) (zozúlja) f
- Upper Sorbian: kokula (hsb)
- Vietnamese: chim cu (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) kukuk (vo), (♂) hikukuk (vo), (♀) jikukuk (vo), (♂♀ offspring) kukukül (vo), (♂ offspring) hikukukül (vo), (♀ offspring) jikukukül (vo), (older term, obsolete) kuklit (vo)
- Võro: kägo
- Welsh: cog (cy)
- West Frisian: koekoek (fy)
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someone crazy
- Bulgarian: чалнат (bg) (čalnat) m
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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
Translations
to make the call of a cuckoo
to repeat something incessantly
- Bulgarian: повтарям монотонно (bg) (povtarjam monotonno)
- Finnish: hokea (fi)
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- Macedonian: вергла (mk) (vérgla)
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