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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.

Hypernyms

  • Echo

Related Words

  • Cuckoo (noun)
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