coo-coo
See also: coocoo
English
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[edit]coo-coo (countable and uncountable, plural coo-coos)
- The two-note vocalisation made by the male of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), or imitation of this by a cuckoo clock.
- 2014, Norah Wilson, Heather Doherty, Forever the Night[1]:
- The clocks lining the dream hallway in her mind taunted her with their twisting hands, their broken faces, and some of them, with a cringe-worthy coo-coo, coo-coo squall.
- A Barbadian food made from mashed okra and cornmeal.
- A loving or affectionate murmuration.
- 1916 August, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 248, column 3:
- "Cut it short, sis, cut it short," he would growl at her if she started to murmur sweet "coo-coos" to her affinity stationed on the other end of the wire.