": a family of chiefly herbaceous tendril-bearing vines (order Campanulales) that are characterized by an inferior ovary and anthers usually united and that include food plants (as the cucumber, melon, squash, and pumpkin), drug plants (as the colocynth), and ornamental plants (as the gourds)":[]
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"Noun",
"one cuckoo at the campground tried to boil soup in a plastic cup",
"didn't want to be among those cuckoos who race around the mall the day before Christmas",
"Adjective",
"a cuckoo woman who wandered around town carefully gathering up useless trash",
"offered a completely cuckoo suggestion for using the defunct strip mall",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The traditional finery is ornate and the souvenir cuckoo clocks even more so. \u2014 Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"For example, Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s 6th Symphony simulates a cuckoo with a clarinet, a nightingale with a flute, and a quail with an oboe. \u2014 Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 June 2022",
"Daddy's little girl is all grown up, which makes Martin's George Banks a little cuckoo . \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"Some, like the common cuckoo , are egg-tossing executioners; others, like the cowbirds that Hauber studies, let their host siblings survive, but still jostle them out of the way to beg, loudly and insistently, for food. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Today, grazing and ranching, dams, and water withdrawal for development pose the greatest threats to the cuckoo . \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 18 Oct. 2021",
"As dawn broke and the rising sun lit the top of the canopy, the cuckoo finally arrived to investigate. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Jan. 2021",
"The cuckoo \u2019s numbers have been shrinking in recent years, but conservation scientists are unsure why. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Jan. 2021",
"Jay Qualman is a rare bird in the Detroit jungle: a purebred car cuckoo who nests in the high branches of the automobile business. \u2014 Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver , 27 Nov. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"In the midst of such cuckoo -ness, my son, Isaac, and daughter-in-law, Lennon, had the courage to bring a child into this world. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Generations later, those simple handmade objects evolved further into cuckoo clocks, music boxes and movie projectors. \u2014 Pat Mcdonogh, The Courier-Journal , 12 Jan. 2022",
"After keeping up a cuckoo -bananas schedule through 2020 and 2021, the band will be taking an extended period of rest, Big Hit Music announced on Twitter. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
"In some areas of the Coronado National Forest, Bugbee has witnessed herds of unbranded cattle wreaking havoc on cuckoo habitat. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 23 Nov. 2021",
"For a weary cuckoo chick, a few extra strength-training sessions might make all the difference between booting its fourth and final nest-mate and having to share its chow. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 26 Oct. 2021",
"To say the world had gone cuckoo for Christian Dior would not be an overstatement; reports show that by 1949, Dior\u2019s confections for the closet accounted for nearly three-quarters of France\u2019s fashion exports. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 28 Sep. 2021",
"There are several species of cuckoo bees in Oregon. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Aug. 2021",
"That is truly cuckoo bananas \u2014 and that is saying something with this show. \u2014 refinery29.com , 4 Aug. 2021"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1627, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1648, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"Middle English cuccu , of imitative origin":"Noun"
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"\u02c8k\u00fc-k\u00fc",
"\u02c8k\u00fc-(\u02cc)k\u00fc",
"\u02c8ku\u0307-"
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"booby",
"charlie",
"charley",
"ding-a-ling",
"ding-dong",
"dingbat",
"dipstick",
"doofus",
"featherhead",
"fool",
"git",
"goose",
"half-wit",
"jackass",
"lunatic",
"mooncalf",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"turkey",
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"noun",
"verb"
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": a family of chiefly herbaceous tendril-bearing vines (order Campanulales) that are characterized by an inferior ovary and anthers usually united and that include food plants (as the cucumber, melon, squash, and pumpkin), drug plants (as the colocynth), and ornamental plants (as the gourds)":[]
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"New Latin, from Cucurbita , type genus + -aceae":""
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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": any of certain usually brilliantly metallic-green or metallic-blue wasps that constitute the family Chrysididae or the superfamily Chrysidoidea and lay their eggs in the provisioned larval cells of other hymenopterous insects":[]
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"noun"
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": wood sorrel sense 1a":[]
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"noun"
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": any of numerous Old World birds somewhat like flycatchers in habits constituting the family Campephagidae but formerly often included in the family Laniidae and differing from the true shrikes especially in their undulating flight resembling that of the cuckoo":[]
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a brilliantly colored European wrasse ( Labrus mixtus ) the male orange or yellow banded with bright blue and the female reddish brown blotched with black":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064741"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a woman whose husband is unfaithful to her":[]
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"definitions":{
": a European ray ( Raja noevus )":[]
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"noun"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Quechua k\u00faka":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153904"
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"noun"
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"\u02c8ky\u00fc-(\u02cc)k\u0259m-b\u0259r",
"\u02c8ky\u00fc-\u02cck\u0259m-b\u0259r"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cooling cucumber and mint against serrano chiles gives a delicious hot-cold sensation. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The aguachile is a glistening raw sea scallop in its shell dressed with cucumber , mint, and chile \u2014 like ceviche in a party dress. \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 7 July 2021",
"Muddle cucumber and mint in the bottom of a shaker tin. \u2014 Jason O'bryan, Robb Report , 3 June 2021",
"For those who\u2019ve spent too much time in the sun, a cucumber melon Swedish massage at the spa relieves both the skin and stress. \u2014 Anna Haines, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"With sea kelp and cucumber fruit, this balm glides on and provides a cooling effect to calm irritation and prevent chafing. \u2014 ELLE , 18 June 2022",
"Deep-clean your complexion with SkinCeuticals' foam face wash, which is infused with glycerin and cucumber extract. \u2014 April Franzino, Good Housekeeping , 17 June 2022",
"Stir and garnish with cucumber slice, lime and cilantro. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"Kendall pointed to her cucumber scene as her standout moment, after her unorthodox cutting technique exploded online. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French cucumbre , from Latin cucumer-, cucumis":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-163515"
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"cucumber angular leaf spot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a leaf spot of cucumber caused by a bacterium ( Pseudomonas lachrymans )":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180615"
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"cucumber beetle":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of several leaf beetles that are especially injurious to cucumbers and squashes, attacking the leaves as adults and the roots and stems as larvae \u2014 see spotted cucumber beetle , striped cucumber beetle \u2014 compare corn rootworm":[]
},
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"cucaracha":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Mexican ballroom and nightclub dance":[]
},
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"\u02cck\u00fck\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4ch\u0259"
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"from ( La ) Cucaracha The Cockroach, Mexican popular song to which it is danced":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211948"
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"cucumber tree":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a magnolia ( Magnolia acuminata ) of the eastern U.S. having fruit resembling a small cucumber":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1782, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215033"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": any of numerous falcons of a genus ( Aviceda ) distinguished by a crested head and doubly notched bill and commonly resembling cuckoos in color and pattern":[]
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"cuchia":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a sluggish fish ( Amphipnous cuchia ) resembling an eel, inhabiting swamps in Bengal, and having membranous vascular sacs enabling it to breathe air and most fins absent or vestigial":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Bengali k\u0169ciy\u0101":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-234157"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a disease of the cucumber caused by a fungus ( Cladosporium cucumerinum ) characterized by spotting and blighting of the leaves and dark sunken cavities on the fruit":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a disease of cucumbers and related plants characterized by sudden wilting of affected plants and caused by a motile bacterium ( Erwinia tracheiphila )":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a deep-fried cube of pork":[]
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"\u02cck\u00fcchi\u02c8fr\u0113t\u014d",
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"American Spanish, from cuch\u00ed hog, pork (alteration of Spanish cochino hog) + Spanish frito fried, past participle of freir to fry, from Latin frigere":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010055"
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": a large family of shallow-water sea cucumbers (order Dendrochirota) having a number of intricately branched oral tentacles, an internal madreporite, and a well-developed respiratory tree":[]
": a plant disease especially of cucumbers that is caused by a single-stranded RNA virus (species Cucumber mosaic virus of the genus Cucumovirus , family Bromoviridae ) and is transmitted chiefly by an aphid and produces mottled foliage and often pale warty fruits":[]
