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cuckoo clock
noun
: a wall or shelf clock that announces the hours by sounds resembling a cuckoo's call
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
—Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
Its centerpiece was a grand, defunct table cuckoo clock whose avian automaton was paralyzed just beyond its little door.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
—Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
As Orson Welles reminds Joseph Cotten in The Third Man (1949), unsettling times can nurture artistic renaissances while serene prosperity yields only the cuckoo clock.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1789, in the meaning defined above
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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cuckoo clock
noun
: a clock that announces the hours with sounds like a cuckoo's call
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