cuck

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Baden-W�rttemberg was formerly famed mostly for the cuck oo clock, which remained for centuries the area's best-known product.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It is ten days,” writes a naturalist, “since I heard the unmistakable ‘Cuck, cuck, cuck’ of the newly-arrived cuckoo at Hampstead.”

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

He passed by Yalbury-Wood where the game-birds were rising to their roosts, and heard the crack-voiced cock-pheasants "cu-uck, cuck," and the wheezy whistle of the hens.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

When started, the voice is 'cuck, cuck, cuck,' like the common pheasant.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 by Various

From an obs. word cuck, to ease one's self; cf.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various