cuck
Example Sentences
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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
The other was a cuck, cuck, cuck, which sounded much like the song of the Cuckoo.
From The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends by Hix, Melvin
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
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
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
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