cuckooing

English

Verb

cuckooing

1. present participle and gerund of cuckoo

Noun

cuckooing (countable and uncountable, plural cuckooings)

1. The call of a cuckoo.
   • 1882, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:

     […] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, […]

2. (UK) A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used by them as a base for their activities.

Translations

call of a cuckoo

• Finnish: kukunta (fi)

Further reading

• cuckooing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia