Origin of cuckoo
1200–50; Middle English
cuc(c)u, cuccuk(e) (imitative); compare Latin
cucūlus, French
coucou, German
Kuckuk, Dutch
koekoek, Modern Greek
koûko
Words nearby cuckoo
Example sentences from the Web for cuckoo
British Dictionary definitions for cuckoo
Word Origin for cuckoo
C13: from Old French
cucu, of imitative origin; related to German
kuckuck, Latin
cucūlus, Greek
kokkux
Idioms and Phrases with cuckoo
cuckoo
see cloud-cuckoo land.