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cuckoo clocks

cuckoo clocks is the plural of cuckoo clock.

Meaning of cuckoo clock

Noun

cuckoo clock (plural cuckoo clocks)

  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...1949, Graham Greene, The Third Man, spoken by Harry Lime (Orson Welles)

Questions about cuckoo clocks

What is cuckoo clocks the plural of?
Cuckoo clocks is the plural of cuckoo clock.

Words near cuckoo clocks in the dictionary

  1. cuckoo bees
  2. cuckoo bread
  3. cuckoo catfish
  4. cuckoo catfishes
  5. cuckoo clock
  6. cuckoo clocks
  7. cuckoo cries
  8. cuckoo cry
  9. cuckoo dove
  10. cuckoo doves
  11. cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

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