cuckoo clock

noun

: a wall or shelf clock that announces the hours by sounds resembling a cuckoo's call

Examples of cuckoo clock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more. Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024 As Orson Welles reminds Joseph Cotten in The Third Man (1949), unsettling times can nurture artistic renaissances while serene prosperity yields only the cuckoo clock. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023 Audrey Hall The living room is a prime example of the antique-modern balance with a custom rug, a bronze and antique family chair that was recovered in a contemporary fabric, and an ornate heirloom cuckoo clock. Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023 Bezos later explains that there are five metal anniversary displays that will function like traditional cuckoo clocks chiming at one year, 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years, and 10,000 years. Chloe Malle, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023 Lean into the German vibe at the Frankenmuth Cheese Haus, which stocks more than 120 types of cheese, and the Frankenmuth Clock Company, with its 150-plus cuckoo clocks. Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2023 After all, not everyone gets to garden on 60 acres with seven different types of greenhouses, each with its own specific environmental conditions and staff to keep it all running like Geppetto's cuckoo clock collection. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2023 The one who has stayed down has lived less, aged less, the mechanism of his cuckoo clock has oscillated fewer times. Carlo Rovelli, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018 Why not turn yourself into a giant, walking cuckoo clock? Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of cuckoo clock was in 1789

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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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cuckoo clock

noun
: a clock that announces the hours with sounds like a cuckoo's call

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