cuckoo-spit

It was the sort of juxtaposition of contrasting flavours that may inspire the radical TV food scientists which reminds me, I must get that Heston Blumenthal Marmite and cuckoo-spit cheesecake out of the freezer but even four decades later the recollection still makes me gag.

Chewing on some long-forgotten gems from the terraces | Harry Pearson 2012

The bird above me makes little hisp noises, almost under its breath, like the drip of the cuckoo-spit, and then an even quieter, rather filthy, wormy grunt that transforms it into a flying pig and ties it to the soil and the leaf mold where it will live for the rest of its life.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

It makes for a claustrophobic broth—the cuckoos, cuckoo-spit, and summer snow—and it drives me back out onto the fen where it is easier to breathe.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Happily our periodical blight is expiring, like cuckoo-spit, in its own bubbles; and the time is returning when the bottle-blister will not be accepted as the good ripe peach.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Complete inertia is my chief memory of hunger; that, and being obliged to spit very frequently, and the spittle being curiously white and flocculent, like cuckoo-spit.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Complete inertia is my chief memory of hunger; that, and being obliged to spit very frequently, and the spittle being curiously white and flocculent, like cuckoo-spit.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

There is no commoner sight in the early summer than the cuckoo-spit on the grasses and herbage by the wayside.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

Happily our periodical blight is expiring, like cuckoo-spit, in its own bubbles; and the time is returning when the bottle-blister will not be accepted as the good ripe peach.

Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

After sojourning for a time in the cuckoo-spit, the frog-hopper becomes a winged insect.]

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897