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cuckoo

About 0.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae within the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
  2. noun The sound of that particular bird.
  3. noun The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
  4. noun The cuckoo clock itself.
  5. noun A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
  6. noun Someone who is crazy.
  7. noun Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food).
  8. noun Alternative form of ku ku jiao (the penis)

Similar words

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Often followed by

clock in and is clocks was land to has

Word family

cuckooed cuckooing cuckoos

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