| 单词 | cuckoo |
| 释义 | cuckoo (once / 1370 pages) 1nv 2n 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. The famous German cuckoo clock is named for the cuckoo bird, and the cuckoo sound the clock makes each hour imitates the call of the cuckoo. To make this call is also to cuckoo. Informally, you might refer to eccentric or crazy people or situations as cuckoo. Though this informal meaning is credited to American English, the word has been used to mean "stupid person" since at least the 1580s. WORD FAMILYcuckoo: cuckooed, cuckooing, cuckoos USAGE EXAMPLESI think it’s harder to pull off what Prescott pulled off in a cuckoo football city like Dallas. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) She thought it a relic, scrapped after it was depicted as an instrument of torture in the 1975 movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) ECT is still overshadowed by its One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest reputation as a damaging procedure. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1n any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail Hypo|Hyper Cuculus canorus, European cuckoo common cuckoo of Europe having a distinctive two-note call; lays eggs in the nests of other birds Coccyzus erythropthalmus, black-billed cuckooNorth American cuckoo; builds a nest and rears its own young Geococcyx californianus, chaparral cock, roadrunnerspeedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas aniblack tropical American cuckoo coucalOld World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw Centropus sinensis, crow pheasantcommon coucal of India and China Centropus phasianinus, pheasant coucal, pheasant cuckooAustralian bird with a tail like a pheasant cuculiform bird birds having zygodactyl feet (except for the touracos) 2v repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call 2Hyper echo, repeat to say again or imitate n a person who is an incompetent fool Syn|Hyper bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, zany fool, muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool a person who lacks good judgment |
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