cuckoo's nest

Questions about cuckoo's nest

What does cuckoo's nest mean?

cuckoo's nest means "pejorative terms for an insane asylum".

What is another word for cuckoo's nest?

Close synonyms include Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, funny farm, funny house. 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's nest a common word?

cuckoo's nest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.