cuckooとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).

Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced 中期英語 gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native 中期英語 yeke, ȝek (from 古期英語 ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.

The UK sense (verb sense 3) is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.

The Malaysian and Singaporean sense (noun sense 8) is a phono-semantic matching of Hokkien 咕咕鳥 / 咕咕鸟 (ku-kú-chiáu)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkʊkuː/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ˈkɵkʉw/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkuku/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈkʉkʉ/
• 韻: -ʊkuː, -uːkuː
• ハイフネーション: cuc‧koo

名詞

cuckoo (countable and uncountable, plural cuckoos)

1. Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae within the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo,
     By the bad voice.

   • 1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC:

     At dawn they fly away, none knows whither. On the eve of the death of any other Tanville-Tankerton, comes (no matter what be the time of year) a cuckoo. It stays for an hour, cooing, then flies away, none knows whither. Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement, and that my authority be sooner given for the unsealing and garnishing of the family-vault.

2. The sound of that particular bird.
3. The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
4. The cuckoo clock itself.
5. A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
6. (slang) Someone who is crazy.
7. Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food).
8. (colloquial, Manglish, Singlish) Alternative form of ku ku jiao (the penis)

   Synonyms: cuckoo bird, ku ku bird

派生語

関連する語

• cuculine (rare)

派生した語

• → Ulithian: kuku
• → Welsh: cwcw

動詞

cuckoo (third-person singular simple present cuckoos, present participle cuckooing, simple past and past participle cuckooed)

1. To make the call of a cuckoo.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 174:

     Switzerland is the home of many musical toys and here were carved whistles in the shapes of birds. These cuckooed realistically when blown into, with the beak opening and shutting, and the tail moving up and down to produce the 'cuck' and the 'oooh'.

2. To repeat something incessantly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonym: parrot

3. (UK, law enforcement) To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way.
   • 2023, Sally Wainwright, 26:06 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire):

     She'll have been cuckooed. That'll be the Knezevics. They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.

形容詞

cuckoo (comparative more cuckoo, superlative most cuckoo)

1. (slang) Crazy; not sane.

   I think I'm going cuckoo!

   • 1964 August, “Amsterdam Interzonal”, in Chess Review:

     71...R/3xN†? [White] resigns?? Lengyel combined to get this cuckoo coup expecting 72 RxR BxP† to win. And Darga's mind, apparently in the same channel, also overlooked 73 K-K3.

派生語

• cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
• cuckooness