cuckold
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When the BBC visited the London properties with the Met police, officers said squalid conditions were the norm when it comes to cuckooed premises.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
She said she was cuckooed for months, and became "a prisoner in my own home".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
During the week of action, 904 of these "cuckooed" homes were visited by law enforcement, and 1,138 vulnerable people were safeguarded, including 573 children.
From BBC • May 26, 2021
When William Butler Yeats paid his first visit to that high priestess of occultism, Madame Blavatsky, the lady's pet cuckoo came out of a broken Swiss clock and cuckooed at him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cuckoo-clock in the corner by the stove cuckooed twelve times, and then from without sounded the deep, full tone of the parish-church clock.
From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz
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