Definitions for cuckoo-spit

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cuckoo-spit cuck·oo-spit

Spelling: [koo-koo-spit, koo k-oo-]

IPA: /ˈku kuˌspɪt, ˈkʊk u-/

Cuckoo-Spit is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 351 anagrams from letters in cuckoo-spit (-ccikoopstu).

Definitions for cuckoo-spit

noun

1. Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
2. an insect that produces this secretion.

Origin of cuckoo-spit

1350-1400; Middle English cokkowespitle cuckoopint; so called from the spitlike secretion found on the plant and thought to be left by the bird

Examples for cuckoo-spit

They call it cuckoo-spit, from its plentiful appearance about the arrival of that bird.

There is no commoner sight in the early summer than the cuckoo-spit on the grasses and herbage by the wayside.