cuck
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“It is ten days,” writes a naturalist, “since I heard the unmistakable ‘Cuck, cuck, cuck’ of the newly-arrived cuckoo at Hampstead.”
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Sir Owen Seaman
He passed by Yalbury-Wood where the game-birds were rising to their roosts, and heard the crack-voiced cock-pheasants "cu-uck, cuck," and the wheezy whistle of the hens.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
When started, the voice is 'cuck, cuck, cuck,' like the common pheasant.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 by Various
The other was a cuck, cuck, cuck, which sounded much like the song of the Cuckoo.
From The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends by Melvin Hix
From an obs. word cuck, to ease one's self; cf.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
