Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cuckoo clock

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English

Syllables: cuck-oo -clock
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.

Example Sentences

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance… In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?… The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly."

Inflected Forms

cuckoo clocks (plural)

Questions

What does cuckoo clock mean?: A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.

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