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- Dictionarycuckoo/ˈkʊkuː/
noun
- 1. a long-tailed, medium-sized bird, typically with a grey or brown back and barred or pale underparts. Many cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of small songbirds.
- 2. a mad person. informal
adjective
- 1. mad; crazy: informal "people think you're cuckoo"
verb
- 1. take over (the home of a vulnerable person) in order to establish a base for illegal drug dealing in the area: British "the frightened woman confided to her support worker that her flat had been cuckooed by a gang selling drugs"
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Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of the word cuckoo, which can refer to a bird, its call, or a silly person. Find out how cuckoo is related to cuckold, cuckoo clock, and cloud-cuckoo-land.
Cuckoo can be a noun for a bird that lays its eggs in other nests, or an adjective for something silly or crazy. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation and usage of cuckoo with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Cuckoo - Wikipedia. Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae / kjuːˈkjuːlɪdiː / family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes / kjuːˈkjuːlɪfɔːrmiːz /. [1] [2] [3] The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals, and anis.
Cuckoo definition: a common European bird, Cuculus canorus, of the family Cuculidae, noted for its characteristic call and its brood parasitism.. See examples of CUCKOO used in a sentence.
Learn the origin, pronunciation, and usage of the word cuckoo, which can refer to a bird, its call, or a foolish person. See examples, synonyms, and related words for cuckoo.
Cuckoo is a word that can refer to a bird, its call, or a slang term for a foolish person. Learn the origin, usage, and synonyms of cuckoo from various dictionaries and sources.
A cuckoo is a type of long-tailed bird that's known for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds. In the summer, you're most likely to see cuckoos in various parts of Europe.
