Crossword clues for cuckoo
cuckoo
- Bird with no nest of its own
- Bird out of its tree?
- Bird - bananas
- Feature of some clocks
- Bird in a clock
- Bird that pops out of a clock
- Bird who makes hourly appearances?
- Slightly mad — bird
- Slightly crazy — bird
- Roadrunner relative
- Mad — bird
- Foolish — bird
- Bird with distinctive cry
- Bird with an onomatopoeic name
- Bird in some clocks
- Bird (with a bad reputation)
- Bird — mad
- Bird — bananas
- ____ clock
- ___ clock (timepiece containing a noisy bird)
- Crackpot
- A man who is a stupid fool
- Any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail
- Title bird for Ken Kesey
- Crackbrained
- Bananas
- Chowchow
- Bird in a Kesey title
- Beaked timekeeper
- Good indication of the appearance of spring nuts?
- Crazy; bird
- Copper and cook disrupted interloper
- Coot-like bird
- One of the birds or bats
- Slightly crazy - bird
- Silly sort returning textbook cucumber sandwiches
- Nuts for a bird
- Foolish - bird
- Loco, a flier?
- Bird with two-note call
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuckoo \Cuck"oo\ (k[oo^]k"[=oo]), n. [OE. coccou, cukkow, F. coucou, prob. of imitative origin; cf. L. cuculus, Gr. ????, Skr. k?ki?a, G. kuckuk, D. koekoek.] (Zo["o]l.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species. Note: The European cuckoo ( Cuculus canorus) builds no nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them. The American yellow-billed cuckoo ( Coccyzus Americanus) and the black-billed cuckoo ( Coccyzus erythrophthalmus) build their own nests. Cuckoo clock, a clock so constructed that at the time for striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the cuckoo. Cuckoo dove (Zo["o]l.), a long-tailed pigeon of the genus Macropygia. Many species inhabit the East Indies. Cuckoo fish (Zo["o]l.), the European red gurnard ( Trigla cuculus). The name probably alludes to the sound that it utters. Cuckoo falcon (Zo["o]l.), any falcon of the genus Baza. The genus inhabits Africa and the East Indies. Cuckoo maid (Zo["o]l.), the wryneck; -- called also cuckoo mate. Cuckoo ray (Zo["o]l.), a British ray ( Raia miraletus). Cuckoo spit, or Cuckoo spittle.
A frothy secretion found upon plants, exuded by the larvae of certain insects, for concealment; -- called also toad spittle and frog spit.
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(Zo["o]l.) A small hemipterous insect, the larva of which, living on grass and the leaves of plants, exudes this secretion. The insects belong to Aphrophora, Helochara, and allied genera.
Ground cuckoo, the chaparral cock.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from Old French cocu "cuckoo," also "cuckold," echoic of the male bird's mating cry (compare Greek kokkyx, Latin cuculus, Middle Irish cuach, Sanskrit kokilas). Slang adjectival sense of "crazy" is American English, 1918, but noun meaning "stupid person" is recorded by 1580s, perhaps from the bird's unvarying, oft-repeated call. The Old English name was geac, cognate with Old Norse gaukr, source of Scottish and northern English gowk. The Germanic words presumably originally were echoic, too, but had drifted in form. Cuckoo clock is from 1789.
Wiktionary
crazy; not sane. n. 1 Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the (vern common cuckoo pedia=1), ''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. v
1 To make the call of a cuckoo 2 To repeat something incessantly
WordNet
v. repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call
Wikipedia
Cuckoo is a 2009 British thriller film starring Laura Fraser, Richard E. Grant, Tamsin Greig, Antonia Bernath and Adam F, set in London, UK. It was created, written, and directed by Richard Bracewell and produced by Richard and Tony Bracewell. The film was cast by Dan Hubbard of the Hubbard casting family and scored by Bafta-nominated composer Andrew Hewitt.
Cuckoo is described as a "thriller about sounds and lies". The film tells the story of student Polly (Laura Fraser) who begins to think she is going mad as she starts to hear unexplained sounds. The tagline on the film's poster and DVD is "It's all in the mind".
The cuckoos are a family of birds, Cuculidae, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes. The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separated as distinct families, the Centropodidae and Crotophagidae respectively.
The cuckoos are generally medium-sized slender birds. The majority are arboreal, with a sizeable minority that are terrestrial. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority of species being tropical. Some species are migratory. The cuckoos feed on insects, insect larvae and a variety of other animals, as well as fruit. Many species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species, but the majority of species raise their own young.
Cuckoos have played a role in human culture for thousands of years, appearing in Greek mythology as sacred to the goddess Hera. In Europe, the cuckoo is associated with spring, and with cuckoldry, for example in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost. In India, cuckoos are sacred to Kamadeva, the god of desire and longing, whereas in Japan, the cuckoo symbolises unrequited love.
A cuckoo is a bird of the family Cuculidae.
In Britain and Europe, it is specifically the common cuckoo.
Cuckoo may also refer to:
Cuckoo (comics)' may refer to:
- Cuckoo, a character in ClanDestine comics
- Cuckoo, a comic book series begun in 1996 by Madison Clell
Cuckoo was the second studio album released by the British band Curve in 1993. A musically more varied but significantly darker release than Curve's debut, Doppelgänger, Cuckoo performed poorly in the UK charts compared to the band's first LP.
"Cuckoo" is the third single from Catching a Tiger, American folk rock singer Lissie's debut album. It was released on August 30, 2010 for digital download, it reached number 81 in the UK.
A cuckoo is a military slang term for a sniper, disguised in a sprawling tree. This word has been particularly applied to the Finnish Winter War snipers and the World War II German snipers, who took pot-shots from hidden vantage points.
During World War II, before 1944, the German high command left many cuckoos behind as their armies retreated, in order to delay the Soviet rush.
Cuckoo is a Federal style house in the small community of Cuckoo, Virginia near Mineral, Virginia, built in 1819 for Henry Pendleton. Cuckoo was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1994. The house is prominently sited on U.S. Route 33, which curves around the house. Cuckoo's interior retains Federal detailing alongside Colonial Revival elements from the early 20th century. The house is notable for its design, prominence and its association with the Pendleton family of doctors. The house was named for the Cuckoo Tavern, which stood nearby from 1788. It has been in the Pendleton family since its construction.
Cuckoo is a British sitcom that began airing on BBC Three on 25 September 2012, repeating on BBC One And in 2016, began airing worldwide on Netflix.
Written by Robin French and Kieron Quirke, Cuckoo stars Taylor Lautner, Greg Davies, Tamla Kari and Helen Baxendale. The series launch became BBC Three's most-watched comedy launch, beating the record set by Bad Education, which debuted the previous month. Greg Davies was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. At the British Comedy Awards, Cuckoo was nominated for Best New Comedy Programme and Greg Davies was nominated for Best TV Comedy Actor.
Cuckoo is a 2014 Tamil romantic drama film written and directed by Raju Murugan and produced by Fox Star Studios. The film stars Dinesh and Malavika Nair as a visually challenged pair, while Aadukalam Murugadoss plays a pivotal role. The film was released on 21 March 2014 and received generally positive reviews.
Usage examples of "cuckoo".
Chapter VII Instinct Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.
Soon, they were swamped with the language of fistiana, with cheering swells and rapid-fire descriptions of a brute struggle between two cherubic assassins on cauliflower row, each landing pancake blows that knocked the gallery gods cuckoo.
So saying, I took a pistol and vigorously stripped the sheets off the cuckoo who had got into my nest.
It is a species of cuckoo, but its note, so often mentioned in haiku and in other forms of Japanese poetry, is not what this seems to imply.
As Smith, for the ninth or tenth time, knocked out his pipe on a bar of the grate, the cuckoo clock in the kitchen proclaimed the hour.
More skim-milk coloured, but known by lanceolate leaves - cuckoo bushes.
Nor do the long-drawn notes of the nightingale, nor even the jolly cuckoo, nor the tree pipit, no, nor even the soft coo of the turtle-dove and the smell of the May flower.
Seated in an overstuffed armchair, Tolley began to relax, feeling like a fledgling cuckoo as the Beaumonts fluttered about, plying him with hot, milky tea and a stack of biscuits and small, buttery cakes.
Soon, the wryneck would be calling, and the cuckoo ringing the valley with its double note.
The wryneck was thought to build the nest, and hatch and feed the young of the cuckoo.
The jays were going cuckoo over the Cheezie Nuggies, most definitely savoring the zesty cheddary richness, scurrying back to their nests to regurgitate from their crops their loads of dull little seeds and romping expectantly back to my windowsill for a fresh new load of Nug-gies.
Richmond Park possessed itself, even on that bright day of June, with arrowy cuckoos shifting the tree-points of their calls, and the wood doves announcing high summer.
I fathered upon her in those nights the poker chip, the cash register, the juice extractor, the kazoo, the rubber pretzel, the cuckoo clock, the key chain, the dime bank, the pantograph, the bubble pipe, the punching bag both light and heavy, the inkblot, the nose drop, the midget Bible, the slot-machine slug, and many other useful and humane cultural artifacts, as well as some thousands of children of the ordinary sort.
Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts, and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species.
I sometimes used to talk on walks in Surrey when I was a kid - Green Line bus, a few hours in the woods - and it was my fault the cuckoo or redstart or fieldfare or siskin flew away, and never came back the whole day.