Words similar to cuckoo

Example sentences for: cuckoo

How can you use “cuckoo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The cuckoo clock."
This notion was once a staple of big novels (see Catch-22 or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ), and Exley plays it for all it is worth, ennobling himself through nausea.
Instinct recycles a lot of countercultural touchstones--the lovable psychotics out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), the fascist guards out of Cool Hand Luke (1967).
The plot rips off the familiar one-on-one mind games of The Silence of the Lambs and adds up to nothing more than "a greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as Gorillas in the Mist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to watch the trailer, and for David Edelstein's review in
Comments like “The cuckoo was so named for the one-note song it repeats over and over” came from someone who has never heard the bird's disyllabic call.