2. Noun. The call of a cuckoo. ¹
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Definition of Cuckooing
1. cuckoo [v] - See also: cuckoo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuckooing
Literary usage of Cuckooing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Frank by Maria Edgeworth (1836)
"... to hear the cuckoo clock, which, as he observed to Mary, wanted but five
minutes of cuckooing; but he took her advice, and kept his good resolutions. ..."
2. Tex: A Chapter in the Life of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos by Stephen McKenna (1922)
"... I return on the 12th; on the 13th I go cuckooing at the Wharf, returning on
the 16th; . . . on the 18th I join my wife at Bexhill; how, I ask you, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1830)
"... furniture principally consisted of ten or a dozen wooden clocks, chiming or
cuckooing, in delightful discordance, whenever they struck the passing hour. ..."
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