Meaning

1 senses
  1. Anything harmful that is infiltrated into a place in order to develop and emerge there.

Origin

In reference to the habit of the cuckoo of depositing its egg into another bird's nest to

In reference to the habit of the cuckoo of depositing its egg into another bird's nest to be incubated and fed.

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Forms

plural: cuckoo's eggs
Singularcuckoo's egg
Pluralcuckoo's eggs

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See also

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