coucou

coucou (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of coo-coo (“Barbadian food”).

Inherited from Latin cuculus.

coucou m (plural coucous) (ORB, broad)

1. cuckoo

• coucou in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• coucou in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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Inherited from Old French cucu; onomatopoeic derivative of the call of the cuckoo (bird), coucou, or from Latin cuculus.

• IPA^(key): /ku.ku/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -u

coucou m (plural coucous)

1. cuckoo (the bird)
2. cuckoo (the cry of the bird)
3. cuckoo clock
4. cowslip (flower)
5. (informal) old plane; old crate; rust bucket; any old vehicle, especially one that is rickety

• → Persian: کوکو (kuku)

coucou

1. cuckoo; the call of the cuckoo
2. peekaboo
3. (colloquial, informal) hiya, hey; an informal greeting
4. (colloquial, informal, by extension) an informal goodbye, bye-bye

• coucouille

• “coucou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [kowˈkow]

coucou m (plural coucous)

1. toad

   Synonyms: costro, sapo, estombo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coucou”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old French cucu, from Latin cucūlus.

coucou m (plural coucous)

1. (Jersey) cuckoo
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 534:

     En Avril, le coucou crie, s'il est en vie.

     In April, the cuckoo sings, if he is alive.

2. (Jersey) striped wrasse