Definition of Cuckooing

1. Verb. (present participle of cuckoo) ¹

2. Noun. The call of a cuckoo. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cuckooing

1. cuckoo [v] - See also: cuckoo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuckooing

cuckoo-dove
cuckoo-doves
cuckoo bread
cuckoo clock
cuckoo clocks
cuckoo dove
cuckoo flower
cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
cuckoo sign
cuckoo spit
cuckoobud
cuckoobuds
cuckooed
cuckooflower
cuckooflowers
cuckooing (current term)
cuckooings
cuckoopint
cuckoopints
cuckoos
cuckquean
cuckqueans
cucquean
cucqueans
cucujo
cucujos
cuculid
cuculids
cuculiform bird
cuculine

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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