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    cuckoo


    cuckooing


    cuckoos


    1. "Lancer 1-1, this is Cuckoo 3-1


    2. cuckoo was slowly replaced by the hoot of owls, and he


    3. I told Lena that there must be a house nearby, because I heard someone’s cuckoo clock, and it wasn’t keeping very good time


    4. “No, Einstein,” she said “That’s an actual cuckoo


    5. ” So, there’s this real bird (called a cuckoo) that makes a cuckoo clock sound—think of that!


    6. Her voice that was as sweet as a Cuckoo had gone from silvery to husky without Krishnan noticing when, and she spoke in a feeble way, as her mother had done


    7. Come on, you never know with cuckoo


    8. Man, this guy was a walking cuckoo


    9. Cuckoo Clocks had nothing on me at that time


    10. That enraged Spock and after few harder blows, he knocked the Colonel into cuckoo land

    11. Friends and loved ones – the worldly types – might accuse you of living in ‘love cuckoo land’ and of having unrealistic expectations


    12. Lord of it all now, the cuckoo


    13. The imprinted cuckoo infant will


    14. might have been walking on old terra firma but his head was in cloud cuckoo


    15. measure to the scales of probability in her mind : She’s cuckoo


    16. In the spring season, when the prevailing wind blows; when the buds of orchid flowers laburnum bloom on the bark of trees; when the cuckoo bird sings her melodious songs; and when the trees wear new leaves, the Rongali Bihu festival arrives, which brings us new life and new hope


    17. spiritual meaning of the Cuckoo


    18. I felt as though I had been let out of prison as I breakfasted joyfully on the verandah, the sun streaming through the creeperless trellis on to the little meal, and the first cuckoo of the year calling to me from the fir wood


    19. Perhaps, she drove her husband cuckoo with her incessant talk


    20. Her nerve-wracking speculations about this and that young man, his prospects and whether he would make me a good husband, were driving me cuckoo

    21. I"m a little cuckoo


    22. Robber Barons and the Cuckoo Bird


    23. The cuckoo bird exhibits the exact same tactics of child-raising that human European robber barons used at least 4,000 years ago


    24. Did they get this from their undead ancestors? Or did their ancestors get it from the cuckoo bird?


    25. If there is more than one egg in the nest, or if the mother bird lays her own eggs after the cuckoo bird has laid her egg in the nest: the baby cuckoo egg is the first one to hatch because its hatching time is less


    26. The baby cuckoo is genetically programmed to attack and either kill, or push out all the other baby birds in the nest, so they fall to the ground where they either die of cold or starvation, or are killed by predators and eaten


    27. The baby Cuckoo becomes a huge: far outweighing the small frantic mother that is driven to feed the monster growing in its own nest


    28. Europeans who manage to fuck their neighbor’s wife: play the same filthy trick which the cuckoo bird has played on other birds for untold years


    29. The cuckoo is a bird that the Europeans consider to be crazy


    30. The cuckoo bird is believed to be crazy

    31. The cultures of the poor have taken on the same cuckoo bird cultures


    32. Abstract crazy cuckoo identities


    33. Which culture is more intelligent? Western civilized robber baron consumer capitalism; dominating the rest of the poor nations of the world? Or the cuckoo bird dominating the rest of the birds in their area? Who is more cuckoo? Humans; or the cuckoo bird? What is the difference?


    34. Are we humans designed to use the tactics of a fucking cuckoo bird? Is that how we have proved our fucking supposedly superior, dominant intelligence? Do you think birds cannot manipulate us? They have been doing it for millions of years


    35. The cuckoo bird in Europe: is only one small example of this secret manipulation of undead bird intelligence auras violating undead human’s auras and vice versa


    36. The thought of that irony almost made him laugh out loud given the present circumstances, but people thought he was crazy enough as it was already without adding sudden outbursts of laughter to the cuckoo list


    37. Upon this clear stillness, like feathers on the surface of a pool, fell the calling of a cuckoo


    38. The cuckoo, of course, had long been silent; but many another feathered friend, for months a part of the familiar landscape and its small society, was missing too and it seemed that the ranks thinned steadily day by day


    39. drowsily and from time to time a late cuckoo stammered


    40. Coming home through Los Angeles had twisted some inner mechanism, and like an errant cuckoo clock I was operating on time interrupted by itself

    41. Twice she uttered her usual cuckoo


    42. During the small hours of the next morning, while it was still dark, dwellers near the highways were conscious of a disturbance of their night's rest by rumbling noises, intermittently continuing till daylight—noises as certain to recur in this particular first week of the month as the voice of the cuckoo in the third week of the same


    43. Brooke, and within ten yards of him, the effigy of himself: buff-colored waistcoat, eye-glass, and neutral physiognomy, painted on rag; and there had arisen, apparently in the air, like the note of the cuckoo, a parrot-like, Punch-voiced echo of his words


    44. My parents dropped by the night before, presented us with the family cuckoo clock that I’d loved as a child, and the three of us cried and hugged as Nick shuffled his hands in his pockets and promised to take care of me


    45. Let’s see, what’s new? Nick and I are currently embroiled in what I have taken to calling (to myself) the Cuckoo Clock Conundrum


    46. The cuckoo is also having a tough time adjusting to its new space: The little bird lurches out drunkenly at ten minutes after the hour; seventeen minutes before; forty-one past


    47. Gave me a fucking cuckoo clock to remember them by


    48. I turned off the camera and sat back on the couch (I always filmed while sitting on the couch under her pernicious, unpredictable cuckoo clock, because I knew if I didn’t show her cuckoo clock, she’d wonder whether I had finally gotten rid of her cuckoo clock, and then she’d stop wondering whether I had finally gotten rid of her cuckoo clock and simply come to believe it was true, and then no matter what sweet words came out of my mouth, she’d silently counter with: “and yet he tossed out my cuckoo clock”)


    49. The cuckoo was, in fact, soon to pop out, its grinding windup beginning over my head—a sound that inevitably made my jaw tense—when the camera crews outside emitted a loud, collective, oceanic wushing


    50. the cuckoo, there is the railway car; where there was a tenderboat, there is now the steamboat; people speak of Fecamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days


































    1. Accordingly this was done, but it made no difference to Mr Hickery; on the contrary, he said, in a vehement manner, that he was sure there must be some corrupt understanding among us, otherwise a matter of such importance could not have been decided by a silent vote; and at every session of the council, till some new matter of difference cast up, he continued cuckooing about the lamp-job, as he called it, till he had sickened every body out of all patience


    1. waters, who would not dream of lazing here awhile? Local wildlife includes hermit crabs, mangrove cuckoos, red-footed tortoise and tiny orange butterflies


    2. ” He was feeling quite smug with himself; cuckoos had a habit of hijacking other birds nests with little effort to build their own in the first place


    3. That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy


    4. So I just went round the back of the yard to pumpship and begob (hundred shillings to five) while I was letting off my (Throwaway twenty to) letting off my load gob says I to myself I knew he was uneasy in his (two pints off of Joe and one in Slattery's off) in his mind to get off the mark to (hundred shillings is five quid) and when they were in the (dark horse) pisser Burke was telling me card party and letting on the child was sick (gob, must have done about a gallon) flabbyarse of a wife speaking down the tube she's betteror she's (ow!) all a plan so he could vamoose with the pool if he won or (Jesus, full up I was) trading without a licence (ow!) Ireland my nation says he (hoik! phthook!) never be up to those bloody (there's the last of it) Jerusalem (ah!) cuckoos


    5. Immediately the dwarf felt that he was free he seized a sack full of gold that was hidden amongst the tree's roots, and, lifting it up, grumbled out, "Clumsy creatures, to cut off a bit of my beautiful beard, of which I am so proud! I leave the cuckoos to pay you for what you did


    6. That was his most perfect idea of heaven’s happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy


    7. If life was a great Swiss clock, then these were the sprightliest cuckoos that ever jumped out of two doors at once, announcing the exact same time, each of them, not a second lost between


    8. [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages share


    9. Ramsay remarks that two of the Australian cuckoos, when they lay their eggs in an open nest, manifest a decided preference for nests containing eggs similar in colour to their own


    10. With respect to the means by which this strange and odious instinct was acquired, if it were of great importance for the young cuckoo, as is probably the case, to receive as much food as possible soon after birth, I can see no special difficulty in its having gradually acquired, during successive generations, the blind desire, the strength, and structure necessary for the work of ejection; for those cuckoos which had such habits and structure best developed would be the most securely reared

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    Synonyms for "cuckoo"

    cuckoo bozo fathead goof goofball goose jackass twat zany

    "cuckoo" definitions

    a man who is a stupid incompetent fool


    any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail


    repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call