What is 'coucou' in English?

Answer 1

The word 'coucou' is translated as cuckoo, in terms of the European bird that gets its eggs hatched in other birds' nests. It's cowslip, in terms of the plant. And it's cuckoo clock, in terms of the charming timepiece whose hour is sounded by a musical cuckoo bird.

Addition by crisdean

Coucou is also a familiar way to say Hi or Hello, it is kind and friendly. Almost used on the internet, on the phone or in spoken french.

Answer 2

Coucou is a perfectly good french word meaning cuckoo.

Beware. If you hear this word in France nowadays, nine times out of ten it is a colloquial usage meaning 'hi, wotcher, hey there, wat up?, airgun?' or whatever else is current in your part of the English-speaking world.

Answer 3

"Hello, you!" and "Hey there, you!" are English equivalents of the French phrase Coucou, toi! The phrase in question serves as a colloquial, conversational, friendly, informal greeting to a member of the speaker's close circle of family members, friends and peers since the emphatic form of the second person informal singular is used. The pronunciation will be "koo-koo twa" in French.