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CUCKOO
CUCKOO
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a little toy
bird
that makes a sound like that of the cuckoo
bird
, whose call sounds like the word cuckoo. The allusion in the lecture is to a cuckoo
clock
, which
has
such a device to
mark
intervals of
time
.
—HSSC Glossary (approved 3-9-90)