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cuckooing
cuckooing
English
Verb
cuckooing
- present participle of cuckoo
Noun
cuckooing (plural cuckooings)
- The call of a cuckoo.
- 1882 The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
- . . . the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, . . .
- 1882 The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal