cuckooing

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English

Verb

cuckooing

  1. present participle of cuckoo

Noun

cuckooing (plural cuckooings)

  1. The call of a cuckoo.
    • 1882 The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
      [] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, []

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