† cuckoo-spelln.Obsolete name suggested by Puttenham for the rhetorical figure Epizeuxis.
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1589 G. PuttenhamArte Eng. Poesieiii. xix. 168 We might very properly, in our vulgar and for pleasure call him the cuckowspell.