dial. To utter the note of the cuckoo; COOK v.2 Hence Cucking vbl. sb.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xiii. 106. The … cucking of Cuckows, bumling of Bees.
18[?]. Northumbrld. Rime, in Swainson, Prov. Names Birds, 111. The cuckoo comes of mid March And cucks of mid Aperill.
