cuckoo-landn.
= cloud-cuckoo-land n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place
fairyc1330
rumbelow?1515
Hogs Norton?1565
fairyland1600
wonderland1790
other world1804
dreamland1832
Fourth World1833
cloudland1846
Loamshire1859
looking-glass land1871
looking-glass world1871
under-land1874
cloud-world1884
Speewah1890
Ruritania1894
cloud-cuckoo-land1899
cuckoo-land1916
fantasy world1920
Squaresville1956
la-la land1979
1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 49 For still in Cuckoo-Land they're labouring, With hopes undamped and undiscouraged hearts.
1958 Observer 28 Sept. 17/1 I am afraid that your paper..is living in a cuckoo-land. Have you no idea what ordinary Cockney people..feel about this mass invasion [of coloured people]?
Derivatives
cuckoo-lander n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person
dreamera1425
fantast1588
fantastical1589
fantastic1598
maggot-monger1607
Sabine1610
maggot-patea1640
wham1691
whim1712
visionarya1719
imaginariana1729
ideologue1815
ideologist1818
fancier1828
idealist1829
abstractionist1844
phantasist1864
dreamsmith1873
luftmensch1902
cuckoo-lander1916
fantasist1923
pie-in-the-skyer1973
1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 50 And Cuckoo-Landers not a few shall prove.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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