A female servant or attendant, with origins possibly related to the cuckoo bird or possibly a variant or archaic term.
Compound of 'cuckoo' + 'maid'; the etymology is uncertain and the term appears primarily in historical or dialectal texts, possibly confusing 'cuckoo' with other word roots.
This word is so rare that scholars debate whether 'cuckoo' is even the right root—it might be a corrupted form of another word entirely, which reminds us that some 'old' words are actually mysteries.
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