cuckoo
要点カッコウ
意味
- カッコウ(英国の春告け鳥と言われる;英国は他の鳥の巣に産卵する)
- かっこー,くっくー(その鳴き声)
- 愚かな;ばかな;気違いの
例文
Cuckoos visit here in spring.
カッコウは春にここにやってくる。
Have you ever seen a cuckoo?
カッコウを見た事がありますか。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”). Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk. The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism. The Malaysian and Singaporean sense is a calque of Hokkien 咕咕鳥 /咕咕鸟 (ku-kú-chiáu)