Meanings
plural cuckoo clocks
- A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
1 more example
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.
1949, Graham Greene, The Third Man, spoken by Harry Lime (Orson Welles)
Translations
Czech kukačkové hodiny
- kukačkové hodinyclock
Danish kukur
- kukurclock
Dutch koekoeksklok
- koekoeksklokclock
Esperanto kukolhorloĝo, ŝvarcvalda horloĝo
- kukolhorloĝoclock
- ŝvarcvalda horloĝoclock
- kukuhorloĝoclock
Finnish käkikello
- käkikelloclock
German Kuckucksuhr
- Kuckucksuhrclock
Greek ρολόι κούκου
- ρολόι κούκου (rolói koúkou)clock
Hungarian kakukkos óra
- kakukkos óraclock
Irish clog cuaiche
- clog cuaicheclock
Italian orologio a cucù
- orologio a cucùclock
Japanese 鳩時計
- 鳩時計 (hatodokei)clock
Korean 뻐꾸기시계
- 뻐꾸기시계 (ppeokkugisigye)clock
Norwegian Bokmål gjøkur, gaukur
- gjøkurclock
- gaukurclock
Polish zegar z kukułką
- zegar z kukułkąclock
Portuguese relógio cuco
- relógio cucoclock
Romanian ceas cu cuc
- ceas cu cucclock
Russian часы с кукушкой
- часы с кукушкой (časy s kukuškoj)clock
Spanish reloj de cuco, reloj cucú
- reloj de cucoclock
- reloj cucúclock
Swedish gökur, gökklocka
- gökurclock
- gökklockaclock
Turkish guguklu saat, guguklu
- guguklu saatclock
- gugukluclock
Cite this entry
cuckoo clock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuckoo%20clock
“cuckoo clock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cuckoo clock,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuckoo%20clock.
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