cuckoo

1. 1.

   repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call

   Broaderrepeat

Other forms of cuckoo

plural

cuckoos·

past tense

cuckooed·

present participle

cuckooing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cuckoo

What does cuckoo mean?

cuckoo means "a man who is a stupid incompetent fool". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cuckoo?

cuckoo has 2 syllables: cuc-koo. The stress falls on "cuc". In IPA it is /ˈkʌˌku/.

What is another word for cuckoo?

Close synonyms include fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cuckoo a common word?

cuckoo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cuckoo?

3 words rhyme with cuckoo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.