Cuckoos synonyms

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zanies
A clown or buffoon; specif., a former stock character in comedies who clownishly aped the principal actors
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gooses
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
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bozos
A dunce; a fool.
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goofs
(US) A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
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weirdoes
(Slang) A person or thing that is weird, strange, odd, bizarre, etc.
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weirdies
A strange person, event, or thing.
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lunies
A foolish or crazy person.
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cranks
(Informal) A person who has odd, stubborn notions about something; eccentric
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crazies
One who is or appears to be mentally deranged:
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jackasses
The definition of a jackass is a person who is stupid, foolish or offensive, or a male donkey.
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kooks
A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy.
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loons
One who is crazy or deranged.
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lunatics
The definition of a lunatic is a person who is either actually crazy or who is acting crazy and wild in his behavior.
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eccentrics
One who does not behave like others.
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crackpots
(Informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). See also crackhead.
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Find another word for cuckoos. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for cuckoos, like: zanies, gooses, bozos, goofs, weirdoes, weirdies, nuts, lunies, cranks, crazies and jackasses.
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Cuckoos Sentence Examples

  • According to a treatise published by a German physician, Dr Wessel Linden, in 1754, the saline springs at Ffynon-llwyn-y-gog ("the well in the cuckoos' grove") in the present parish of Llandrindod had acquired more than a local reputation as early as the year 1696.

  • Cuckoos are abundant, some of them of lovely plumage, also rollers, kingfishers and hornbills.

  • The Manchurian crane is common, as also are eagles, cuckoos, laughing doves, &c. Insects abound, owing to the swampy nature of much of the country.

  • The reedbeds and tall fen vegetation support nesting sedge and reed warblers as well as numerous cuckoos.

  • Some cuckoos are singular for their habit of using the nests of smaller birds to lay their eggs in, so that the young may be reared by foster-parents; and it has been suggested that the object of the likeness exhibited to the hawk is to enable the cock cuckoo either to frighten the small birds away from their nests or to lure them in pursuit of him, while the hen bird quietly and without molestation disposes of her egg.

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