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What is the noun for cuckoo?

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cuckoo
  1. Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, that has a characteristic two-note call.
  2. The sound of that particular bird.
  3. The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
  4. Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
  5. Someone who is crazy.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “He started babbling incoherently about being the Tiger King, and I suspected that I might be dealing with a cuckoo.”
cuckow
  1. Obsolete form of cuckoo.
cuckooing
  1. The call of a cuckoo.
cuckooings
  1. plural of cuckooing
cuckoos
  1. plural of cuckoo
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Birds that bring up young cuckoos are unable to distinguish between parasitic nestlings and their own.”
      “Her data supported a tree topology in which Coccyzus is nested within a single clade comprising all of the parasitic cuckoos.”
      “As has been shown for other bird taxa, smaller species of cuckoos and hosts lay relatively larger eggs in proportion to their body mass.”
cuckows
  1. plural of cuckow
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