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Definition of Cuckoo clock
1. Noun. Clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo.
Definition of Cuckoo clock
1. Noun. A clock that announces the time by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a mechanical cuckoo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuckoo Clock
Literary usage of Cuckoo clock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"says the long-haired one; and right then this cuckoo clock turned loose in ...
If you can get a good Swede out of a cuckoo clock, you can get some good out ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"As you see, I have bought a cuckoo clock." He brought it out, and pushing the
... Her father had the intense pleasure of purchasing another cuckoo clock and ..."
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