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Cuckoo-spittle. World English Historical Dictionary

Cuckoo-spittle. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cuckoo-spittle = prec. (sense 1).

1 1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. iii. 237. It … is … delivered by many, that Cicades are bred out of Cuccow spittle or Woodseare.

2 1664.  Power, Exp. Philos., I. 28. That spumeous froth or dew which here in the North we call Cuckow-Spittle, and, in the South, Woodsear.

3 1880.  Baring-Gould, Mehalah, xiii. (1884), 185. If on a May morning you rub your eyes with cuckoo spittle, you see things invisible before, the fairies in the hoes dancing and feasting, [etc.].

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