cloud-cuckoo-land
PRONUNCIATION: (KLOUD-koo-koo-land) MEANING: noun: An idealized, unrealistic state; a place out of touch with reality. ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of Greek Nephelokokkugia, from nephele (cloud) + kokkux (cuckoo). The word was coined in The Birds, a comedy by Athenian playwright Aristophanes (c. 450-388 BCE). Nephelokokkugia was the name of a city in the sky, built by the birds in collaboration w..
2010.03.23