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cuckoo cry

cuckoo cry noun: a repetitively incessant call, proclamation, statement, plea, etc.

Noun

cuckoo cry (plural cuckoo cries)

  1. A repetitively incessant call, proclamation, statement, plea, etc.
    • How many thousands, influenced by the cuckoo-cry of the cold-blooded political economists, have argued thus[.]1840 May 7, The Launceston Advertiser, Tasmania, page 1, column 4
    • “Jack, darling!” was her one eternal cuckoo-cry, “I’m sure it’s all a mistake—a hideous mistake; and we’ll be good friends again some day. Please forgive me, Jack, dear.”1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10

cuckoo cry meaning in Kannada

cuckoo cry in Kannada

ಕುಕಿಲ್, ಕುಕಿಲು, ಕುಕಿಲಿಡು, ಕುಕ್ಕಿಲಿಡು

Forms of cuckoo cry

pluralcuckoo cries

Questions about cuckoo cry

What does cuckoo cry mean?
Cuckoo cry means a repetitively incessant call, proclamation, statement, plea, etc.
What is cuckoo cry in Kannada?
Cuckoo cry in Kannada is ಕುಕಿಲ್, ಕುಕಿಲು, ಕುಕಿಲಿಡು. See Cuckoo cry meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is cuckoo cry?
Cuckoo cry is a noun.
What is the plural of cuckoo cry?
The plural of cuckoo cry is cuckoo cries.

Words near cuckoo cry in the dictionary

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

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