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English
Noun
cuckow (plural cuckows)
- Obsolete form of cuckoo.
1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.:This employment was very irksome to him in every respect, […] Mr. Hector recollects his writing 'that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, "Vitam continet una dies" (one day contains the whole of my life); that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow; and that he did not know whether it was more disagreeable for him to teach, or the boys to learn, the grammar rules.'
Middle English
Noun
cuckow
- Alternative form of cokkou