I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cuckoo clock (= a clock with a wooden bird inside that comes out every hour and makes a sound )
cuckoo clock
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
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Very occasionally the young cuckoo fails to remove its host's eggs and the young cuckoo and chicks are reared together.
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After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest.
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Sir Emmanuel asked Uncle Ned what it was and he said it was a young cuckoo .
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Opposite A pair of reed warblers work flat out to keep the young cuckoo satisfied.
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The entire burden of hatching, feeding and caring for the young cuckoo falls on the hapless foster parents.
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A dunnock plays host to a young cuckoo .
■ NOUN
clock
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I am famous for cuckoo clocks and chocolate.
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Beside the portrait was a carved cuckoo clock with green ivy and purple grapes growing around a green front door.
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There was a grotesque inventiveness, a deliberate eccentricity in the idea of the cuckoo clock that Melanie had never encountered.
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The cuckoo clock spun round and round.
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Have you seen those cuckoo clocks which have little weathermen as part of the mechanism?
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Melanie and Aunt Margaret sat in complete silence but for the ponderous ticking of the cuckoo clock and its regular two note interjections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, Edgar Chance showed that a cuckoo using a meadow pipit's nest is nearly always attacked while she is laying.
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In addition to certain species of cuckoo , there are about 30 species of birds worldwide that are also brood parasites.
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Opposite A pair of reed warblers work flat out to keep the young cuckoo satisfied.
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The truth is that, as she is laying, the cuckoo removes and eats one of the host's eggs.
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This gives the cuckoo more time to find and watch a suitable nest.
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Very occasionally the young cuckoo fails to remove its host's eggs and the young cuckoo and chicks are reared together.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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So every nation is equally cuckoo .
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This may sound cuckoo , but remember the rolling wheel thing.