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How to pronounce cuckoo in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany
Type of saphead, tomfool, fool, muggins, sap
Type Words
Type of cuculiform bird
Has types cuculus canorus, european cuckoo, ani, roadrunner, geococcyx californianus, chaparral cock, coccyzus erythropthalmus, black-billed cuckoo, coucal
Type Words
Type of echo, repeat

Examples of cuckoo

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Cuckoo hatchlings try a few random chirps before settling on the one that works.
From the economist.com
What do a lion, a turtle, a chicken, a cat and a cuckoo bird all have in common?
From the washingtonpost.com
Little Fox Music Box, $2.99, is akin to stepping inside a well-made cuckoo clock.
From the gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com
Dynamic perfect hashing methods like cuckoo hashing provide constant lookup time.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Anyone who thinks we will be out of it by next summer is in cloud cuckoo land.
From the thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
It has a sauna and steam room, faux fur throws and even a chrome cuckoo clock.
From the guardian.co.uk
Could it be that Jetstar has become the airline world's version of the the cuckoo?
From the smh.com.au
Sure, the subjects are crazy cuckoo compulsive, but at least they tend to be neat.
From the sacbee.com
In areas of recent sympatry, magpies rejected comparatively fewer cuckoo eggs.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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  • Fathead: a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
  • Repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call
  • Any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail
  • The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds. The order Cuculiformes, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos (family Musophagidae, sometimes treated as a separate order, Musophagiformes). ...
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