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The association of the cuckoo with insanity is because of the cuckoo clock. The gears and noisy mechanical cuckoo of the cuckoo clock are figuratively equated with the strange goings-on of a crazy person's mind.
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∙ 15y agoCuckoo is an onomatopoeia, and so "derives" from the sound the animal makes. Other onomatopoeias for the same sound exist and outdate "cuckoo", such as the French "cucu" or the Greek "kokku", but it's hard to say whether "cuckoo" is actually derived from them, or merely sounds similar because it's an imitation of the same noise.
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Ken Kesey’s book ‘One flew over the cuckoos nest‘ takes place in a mental asylum. A group of cuckoos is called an asylum.
So if someone were in an asylum, or crazy, then they would be a cuckoo.
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The mentally ill are treated in hospitals and clinics that specialize in mental illness. The term 'crazy' and 'crazy people' is a generic term that can mean anything wild, violent, oddball, enthusiastic, or strange. A crazy person doesn't equal a mentally ill person. The word 'crazy' can be a positive or a negative description. Examples: She wears such crazy clothes. He's just girl crazy. When I said that, she went crazy. He ran like crazy. That was a crazy thing to do. I think the word you seek is an asylum.
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