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

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 Hardy, Thomas

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

“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

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