cuckoo

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkʊkuː/|/ˈkɵkʉw/    美 /ˈkuku/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae within the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call. countable,uncountable
    — He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo, / By the bad voice.
  2. The sound of that particular bird. countable,uncountable
  3. The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks. countable,uncountable
  4. The cuckoo clock itself. countable,uncountable
  5. A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest). countable,uncountable
  6. Someone who is crazy. countable,slang,uncountable
  7. Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food). alt-of,alternative,countable,uncountable
  8. Alternative form of ku ku jiao (the penis) Manglish,Singlish,alt-of,alternative,colloquial
动词 v.
  1. To make the call of a cuckoo.
    — Switzerland is the home of many musical toys and here were carved whistles in the shapes of birds. These cuckooed realistically when blown into, with the beak opening and shutting, and the tail moving up and down to produce the 'cuck' and the 'oooh'.
  2. To repeat something incessantly.
  3. To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way. UK
    — She'll have been cuckooed. That'll be the Knezevics. They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.
形容词 adj.
  1. Crazy; not sane. slang
    — I think I'm going cuckoo!

词形变化

cuckoos plural cuckoos present,singular,third-person cuckooing participle,present cuckooed participle,past cuckooed past more cuckoo comparative most cuckoo superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
African emerald cuckoo Asian emerald cuckoo black cuckoo-shrike brush cuckoo channel-bill cuckoo channel-billed cuckoo cloud cuckoo land cloud cuckoo-land cloud-cuckoo-land cuckoo bee cuckoo bread cuckoo-bread cuckoobud cuckoo catfish cuckoo clock cuckoo cry cuckoo-dove cuckoo dove cuckoo-finch cuckooflower cuckoo hashing cuckoo-hawk cuckoo-pint cuckoo pint cuckoo-roller cuckoo's egg cuckoo shrike cuckooshrike cuckoo sign cuckoo spit cuckoo-spittle cuckoo theory cuckoo wasp drongo cuckoo drongo-cuckoo emerald cuckoo ground cuckoo hawk-cuckoo Jacobin cuckoo lesser cuckoo little bronze cuckoo mangrove cuckoo Maynard's cuckoo pallid cuckoo Philippine cuckoo-dove pied crested cuckoo pied cuckoo red-chested cuckoo rufous-vented ground-cuckoo yellow-billed cuckoo
相关词
cuculine

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
The Malaysian and Singaporean sense is a Calque of Hokkien 咕咕鳥 /咕咕鸟 (ku-kú-chiáu)
词源 2
From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
The Malaysian and Singaporean sense is a Calque of Hokkien 咕咕鳥 /咕咕鸟 (ku-kú-chiáu)
词源 3
From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
The Malaysian and Singaporean sense is a Calque of Hokkien 咕咕鳥 /咕咕鸟 (ku-kú-chiáu)
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