| Summary: | cuckeloos When I was a little girl Mom used to tell me to wash my "cuckaloo's" which were my ears and I used to use that word till I was around eleven years old. All the people in our family use it and I've heard a couple of our neighbours use it. But it is not known to everyone at home because when I used it one day, without thinking, the other person just stared at me and asked me what _that_ was. She'd never heard it before. It may be a term used by parents to their children, with a gesture of some sort to get them to wash their ears. If they use a word like "cuckeloo" the child will take it a some sort of game, with the mother playing with him. Informant: Mae Drodge, my mother, aged 44. She lives in Little Heart's Ease, but is from Burin originally. DNE-cit Not used Not used Withdrawn Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Fri 08 Jul 2016, stamped but not used
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