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/kˈəkˌu klɑk/ Listen

Cuckoo clock

noun

Clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo.

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"Cuckoo clock" Quotes from Famous Books

... sadly—they strike one note, like a minor poet, and live on the reputation of their first success. It is amusing for a few minutes to hear a clever bird giving imitations of the cuckoo clock, but the joke palls. The Archdeacon's Daughter has a wider repertoire. And so? though the nightingales are still singing, conversation springs up in the copse as if it were a drawing-room and the singers human. My host discourses of the litter of pigs just arrived from the Great Nowhere, and dilates ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... several pictures, a check "for unnecessary things" from one of the women's clubs, another for wall-decoration from teachers, students and graduates of the Albany Library School, fifty Japanese color-prints of chrysanthemums from the Pratt Institute children's room, a cuckoo clock that is still going, though it demands a vacation about once a year, and a Boston fern that is now in flourishing condition. A large Braun photograph of the Madonna del Granduca came later from the Pittsburgh School ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

Words linked to "Cuckoo clock" : clock