cuckooing

cuckooing

English

Verb

cuckooing

1. present participle of cuckoo

Noun

cuckooing (plural cuckooings)

1. The call of a cuckoo.
   • 1882 The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal

     […] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, […]

Translations

call of a cuckoo

Finnish: kukunta (fi)