cuckoo

Speech parts

1. cuckoo - Noun

2. cuckoo - Adjective

3. cuckoo - Verb

Meaning

A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

batty jackass dotty mad loony touched insane crazy foolish goose lunatic wacky nutty zany bonkers
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Antonyms

ninja wizard brainiac maven sound normal
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Hypernyms

echo sap repeat fool saphead tomfool

Hyponyms

ani roadrunner coucal chaparral cock European cuckoo Geococcyx californianus

Phrases with the word

cuckoo's meat ground cuckoo includes cuckoo less cuckoo cloud-cuckoo-town cuckoo pint genus

Examples

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. Terry Pratchett

The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away. Traditional Proverb

Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another's nightingale. German Proverb

On April 8th, the cuckoo's call must be heard. If it isn't, either the cuckoo is dead or is going to die. Corsican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

cuckoldress cuckoldry cuckoldy cuckoo bee cuckoo bread cuckoo catfish