Who seldom saw a watch, but took much of their intelligence from the note of the cuckoo.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Hitchins gives an account of a few local superstitions, some of which are not peculiar to Cornwall:- The sound of the cuckoo, if first heard on the right ear, denotes good luck; but to hear the voice first on the left, is an omen of undefinable disasters.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
You are a bloomin' cuckoo.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham