cuckoo clock
cuckoo clock noun: a clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
Noun
cuckoo clock (plural cuckoo clocks)
- 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...1949, Graham Greene, The Third Man, spoken by Harry Lime (Orson Welles)
Forms of cuckoo clock
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Questions about cuckoo clock
- What does cuckoo clock mean?
- Cuckoo clock means a clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
- What part of speech is cuckoo clock?
- Cuckoo clock is a noun.
- What is the plural of cuckoo clock?
- The plural of cuckoo clock is cuckoo clocks.
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