cuck

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Baden-W�rttemberg was formerly famed mostly for the cuck oo clock, which remained for centuries the area's best-known product.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Hix, Melvin

“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 Seaman, Owen, Sir

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