cuckoo

• n. カッコウ; カッコウ鳥; 愚か者; 鳴き声
• adj.愚かな; 狂った
• vi. カッコウのように鳴く
• vt.何度も何度も繰り返す

カッコウの鳴き声を真似たオノマトペ。

cuckoo

cuckoo: [13] So distinctive is the cuckoo’s call that it is not always clear whether the names for the bird in various languages, based on the call, owe their similarity to borrowing or coincidence – Dutch, for instance, has koekoek, Russian kukúshka, Latin cuculus, and Greek kókkūx. In the case of English cuckoo, it seems to have been borrowed from Old French cucu, which was of imitative origin. Its first appearance is in the famous Cuckoo song of the late 13th century (‘Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing, cuccu!’), where it replaced the native Middle English word yeke (from Old English gēac, also of imitative origin).

cuckoo (n.)

mid-13c., from Old French cocu "cuckoo," also "cuckold," echoic of the male bird's mating cry (compare Greek kokkyx, Latin cuculus, Middle Irish cuach, Sanskrit kokilas). Slang adjectival sense of "crazy" is American English, 1918, but noun meaning "stupid person" is recorded by 1580s, perhaps from the bird's unvarying, oft-repeated call. The Old English name was geac, cognate with Old Norse gaukr, source of Scottish and northern English gowk. The Germanic words presumably originally were echoic, too, but had drifted in form. Cuckoo clock is from 1789.

1. I was living in cloud- cuckoo -land about my salary expectations.

私は自分の給料に対して非現実的な幻想に満ちています。

2.The cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds 'nests.

ツツジは別の鳥の巣に産卵する。

3.In England the cuckoo is the herald of spring.

イギリスではツツジは春を告げる使者である。

4.The cuckoo is a harbinger of spring.

カッコーは春の訪れを予告している。

5.The cuckoo is the herald of spring.

ホトギスは春の訪れを予告している。