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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cuckoo .
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Examples
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The wooden bird, looking down at her in friendly fashion, "cuckooed" eight times, flapped his wings at her and disappeared.
The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912
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Devon and Cornwall Police said Dean and Davis "cuckooed" themselves into homes through mental and physical abuse and in one case a tenant was forced to sleep rough under bridges.
icNewcastle 2009
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Devon and Cornwall Police said Dean and Davis "cuckooed" themselves into homes through mental and physical abuse and in one case a tenant was forced to sleep rough under bridges.
icCheshireOnline 2009
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Devon and Cornwall Police said Dean and Davis "cuckooed" themselves into homes through mental and physical abuse and in one case a tenant was forced to sleep rough under bridges.
icLiverpool 2009
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If you're a granny living on your own you won't get cuckooed, because you will have a network of friends around to support you.
Vulnerable tenants targeted by drug gang 'cuckoos' Jamie Doward 2010
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Myra wanted to tell it to SHUT UP as it cuckooed six times.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND Maggie Jochild 2007
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He was toying with the cigar now, marching into Ye Jesters as the antique cuckoo clock above the reception desk cuckooed three, a commanding general trailed after by his army of one, which happened to be the white-haired, stoop-shouldered Mugsy Charleson.
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He was toying with the cigar now, marching into Ye Jesters as the antique cuckoo clock above the reception desk cuckooed three, a commanding general trailed after by his army of one, which happened to be the white-haired, stoop-shouldered Mugsy Charleson.
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It was certainly stopped, for the weights were off and lying upon the ground, and yet, as I stood there, the cuckoo came out and cuckooed at me.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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It was certainly stopped, for the weights were off and lying upon the ground, and yet, as I stood there, the cuckoo came out and cuckooed at me.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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