Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cuckoo
Participle: cuckooed
Gerund: cuckooing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cuckoo |
| you | cuckoo |
| he;she;it | cuckoos |
| we | cuckoo |
| you | cuckoo |
| they | cuckoo |
Perfect
| I | have cuckooed |
| you | have cuckooed |
| he;she;it | has cuckooed |
| we | have cuckooed |
| you | have cuckooed |
| they | have cuckooed |
Past
| I | cuckooed |
| you | cuckooed |
| he;she;it | cuckooed |
| we | cuckooed |
| you | cuckooed |
| they | cuckooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had cuckooed |
| you | had cuckooed |
| he;she;it | had cuckooed |
| we | had cuckooed |
| you | had cuckooed |
| they | had cuckooed |
Future
| I | will cuckoo |
| you | will cuckoo |
| he;she;it | will cuckoo |
| we | will cuckoo |
| you | will cuckoo |
| they | will cuckoo |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cuckooed |
| you | will have cuckooed |
| he;she;it | will have cuckooed |
| we | will have cuckooed |
| you | will have cuckooed |
| they | will have cuckooed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cuckoo |
| you | cuckoo |
| he;she;it | cuckoo |
| we | cuckoo |
| you | cuckoo |
| they | cuckoo |
Perfect
| I | have cuckooed |
| you | have cuckooed |
| he;she;it | have cuckooed |
| we | have cuckooed |
| you | have cuckooed |
| they | have cuckooed |
Imperfect
| I | cuckooed |
| you | cuckooed |
| he;she;it | cuckooed |
| we | cuckooed |
| you | cuckooed |
| they | cuckooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had cuckooed |
| you | had cuckooed |
| he;she;it | had cuckooed |
| we | had cuckooed |
| you | had cuckooed |
| they | had cuckooed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cuckoo |
| you | would cuckoo |
| he;she;it | would cuckoo |
| we | would cuckoo |
| you | would cuckoo |
| they | would cuckoo |
Perfect
| I | would have cuckooed |
| you | would have cuckooed |
| he;she;it | would have cuckooed |
| we | would have cuckooed |
| you | would have cuckooed |
| they | would have cuckooed |
Imperative
| you | cuckoo |
| we | Let's cuckoo |
| you | cuckoo |
Verbs conjugated like 'cuckoo'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cuckoo'
cuck,
cuckold,
achoo,
beckon,
buck,
bucket,
buckle,
bunko,
cack,
cackle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
2. Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
3. The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
4. The Malaysian and Singaporean sense is a calque of Hokkien 咕咕鳥 /咕咕鸟 (ku-kú-chiáu)
Verbs referencing "cuckoo"
Finnish with old forms
kukkua, Proto-Slavic
kukati.
Sample Sentences
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Switzerland is the home of many musical toys and here were carved whistles in the shapes of birds. These cuckooed realistically when blown into, with the beak opening and shutting, and the tail moving up and down to produce the 'cuck' and the 'oooh'. [1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 174:]
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She'll have been cuckooed. That'll be the Knezevics. They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did. [2023, Sally Wainwright, 26:06 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire):]