cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
English
editEtymology
editCatchphrase of Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, the cartoon mascot of the General Mills breakfast cereal Cocoa Puffs: "I go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!" See cuckoo (“crazy”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
editcuckoo for Cocoa Puffs (not comparable)
- (US, slang) Crazy, insane, irrational.
- 1994, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Troy Dyer (Ethan Hawke):
- This girl is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
- 2010, Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall:
- 'She's totally cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.'