cuckoobud
nounEtymology From cuckoo + bud.
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Obsolete A buttercup.
- When Dasies pied, and Violets blew, And Cuckow-buds of yellow hew:c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]: