cuckoo vs falsetto

cuckoo

verb
  • To repeat something incessantly. 

  • To make the call of a cuckoo. 

adj
  • Crazy; not sane. 

noun
  • The cuckoo clock itself. 

  • The sound of that particular bird. 

  • A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest). 

  • Someone who is crazy. 

  • Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call. 

  • The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks. 

falsetto

verb
  • To sing or utter in falsetto. 

noun
  • A person who sings in falsetto. 

  • The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of vowels; created by utilizing the next highest vocal folds above those used for speech and normal range singing. It is commonly confused with the head voice register. 

How often have the words cuckoo and falsetto occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )