What does cuckow mean?

cuckow

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"This employment was very irksome to him in every respect, […] Mr. Hector recollects his writing 'that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, "Vitam continet una dies" (one day contains the whole of my life); that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow; and that he did not know whether it was more disagreeable for him to teach, or the boys to learn, the grammar rules.'"

cuckows (plural)

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