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(noun) - (1) The cuckoo. John Logan 1748-1788, in his poem To the Cuckoo, calls it the "messenger of spring" . . . Welsh ambassador means that the bird announces the migration of Welsh labourers into England for summer employment.
--Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
(2) If, when you hear the cuckoo for the first time, you are standing on grass or any green leaves, you will certainly live to hear the bird next season. But if you are standing on a roadway or the earth, or even upon stone, you will not live to hear the cuckoo when it comes next.
--Marie Trevelyan's Folk-Lore and Folk-Stories of Wales, 1909
January 15, 2018