Cuckoo

Adjective
cuckoo


 * 1) Crazy; not sane.

Noun

 * 1) 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
 * 2) The sound of that particular bird.
 * 3) The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
 * 4) Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase 'A cuckoo in the nest'.)
 * 5) Someone who is crazy.

Related terms

 * cuckoo clock
 * cuckoo dove
 * cuckoo shrike
 * cuckoo's egg
 * cloud-cuckoo-land
 * cuculine (rare)
 * cuckoo sign

Verb

 * 1) To make the call of a cuckoo
 * 2) To repeat something incessantly

Adjectives
cowled; domineering; echoic; masterful; unmaternal; melancholy; ravenous; usurping; vehement.

Verbs
—calls; —chucks; —deposits; —ejects; — flits; —mocks; —shrills; —shies away; —surveys; —wheels.

Thesaurus
Philomel, ape, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, bulbul, cackle, call, canary, carol, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, conformist, coo, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, crackbrain, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crank, cranky, crazed, crazy, croak, cronk, crow, daffy, daft, ding-a-ling, dippy, dissembler, dissimulator, dotty, drum, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, feathered songster, flaky, flipped, forger, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gabble, gaga, gaggle, gobble, goofy, guggle, harebrain, haywire, honk, hoo, hoot, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, just plain nuts, kook, kooky, lark, loony, loopy, lunatic, mavis, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, nightingale, nut, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, oriole, parrot, peep, phony, pip, pipe, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, potty, quack, ringdove, roll, round the bend, scold, screwball, screwballs, screwy, sheep, simulator, sing, singing bird, slaphappy, song sparrow, songbird, songster, squawk, thrush, trill, tweet, twit, twitter, wacky, warble, warbler, whistle

Etymology
Of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * Albanian: qyqja
 * Arabic: وقواق
 * Armenian: կկու
 * Basque: kuku
 * Belarusian: зязюля (zjazjúlja)
 * Breton: koukoug
 * Bulgarian: обикновена кукувица (obiknovena kukuvica)
 * Catalan: cucut
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 杜鵑, 杜鹃, 布穀,  布谷
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gøg
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: geykur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: cuc, cuců, cucuc
 * Galician: cuco
 * German:
 * Greek: κοϋκος (kúkos)
 * Hebrew: קוקייה (quqi'a)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: カッコウ
 * Korean: 뻐꾸기 (ppeokkugi), 두견새 (杜鵑새, dugyeonsae)
 * Ladin: cuch


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dzeguze
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: kukuuk
 * Lower Sorbian: kukawa
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: daqquqa kaħla
 * Norwegian: gjøk
 * Occitan: coguol
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: kukuriezo, chuhuriezo , kukuriashka , chuhuriashka
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: cucu
 * Russian:
 * Sami: giehka
 * Sardinian: cucu, cucui, cucuperra, cucuperrai, cucuevvai, cucumarei
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: кукавица (kukavica)
 * Slovak: kukučka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: kekeo
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కోకిల
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: kokula
 * Volapük:,  hikukuk,  jikukuk,  kukukül,  kuklit
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: koekoek


 * Bulgarian: кукане
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: cu cu
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: kūkot
 * Lithuanian: kukuoti
 * Macedonian:


 * Bulgarian: чалнат

Verb

 * Bulgarian: кукам
 * Finnish:


 * Hungarian: kakukkol
 * Macedonian:


 * Bulgarian: повтарям монотонно
 * Finnish:


 * Macedonian: вергла