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cuckoo clock en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
   • In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance… In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?… The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly. 1949, Graham Greene, The Third Man, spoken by Harry Lime (Orson Welles):

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Translations (29)

es reloj de cuco (clock) · cs kukačkové hodiny (clock) · it orologio a cucù (clock) · nb gjøkur (clock) · pt relógio cuco (clock) · pl zegar z kukułką (clock) · fi käkikello (clock) · nds-de Kuukuuksklock (clock) · nb gaukur (clock) · nn gaukur (clock) · nl koekoeksklok (clock) · el ρολόι κούκου (clock) · eo kukuhorloĝo (clock) · ga clog cuaiche (clock) · hu kakukkos óra (clock) · es reloj cucú (clock) · ko 뻐꾸기시계 (clock) · ro ceas cu cuc (clock) · mk часовник со кукавица (clock) · ja 鳩時計 (clock) · da kukur (clock) · tr guguklu (clock) · sv gökklocka (clock) · eo ŝvarcvalda horloĝo (clock) · ru часы с кукушкой (clock) · sv gökur (clock) · tr guguklu saat (clock) · eo kukolhorloĝo (clock) · de Kuckucksuhr (clock)