Cuckoo (Verb)
Meaning
Repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The instructor found herself lecturing on the topic so often that she worried she would start to cuckoo the same phrases over and over again.
- He watched in amazement as the broken car alarm continued to cuckoo out the same two notes for the entire night.
- The politician was accused of cuckooing his opponents' views in an attempt to appear more relatable to his audience.
- The professor's warnings about the dangers of oversleeping began to cuckoo through her students' minds as the semester wore on.
- The automated message continued to cuckoo a recording of a cheerful voice, repeating the wait times over and over again.