coo
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren.
Inflected forms:
form: coos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more coo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
pos: noun
examples: The male [ring dove] will continue nest-coos for 3–4 days until his female partner begins to nest-coo. At that point the male's nest-coo begins to become less frequent[…].
gloss: An expression of pleasure made by a person.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: An infant has only cries and coos with which to communicate distress and well-being. Adults have many more ways of expressing themselves. However, their expressions of disease and ease can be boiled down to sophisticated cries and coos. A call for help in whatever form is a cry. A sense of well-being however expressed is a coo. Healing in the context of cries and coos can be viewed as the process of resolving the cries and fostering the coos.
gloss: To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo.
DUET—MAYOR and MAUD. […] Like a Dove I'll coo and bill, pretty Maud, / I will not coo and bill, Mr. Mayor.
But oh! ſhall I, Misfortune's bondman, ſpeak / Of pleaſures and delights, where ſorrows ſhriek! / Can plaintive nightingale, or turte-dove, / When vultures tear them, ſing or coo of love?
The black-bird and the speckled thrush / Good-morrow gave from brake and brush; / In answer cooed the cushat dove, / Her notes of peace, and rest, and love.
Then did her soft breath stop and she lay still, her eyes yet open and smiling at the blossoms and the doves who sat upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed.
As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.
gloss: To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other.
gloss: Cool.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: An expression of approval, fright, surprise, etc.
pos: intj
examples: I stood outside the door for a space, letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would", as Jeeves tells me cats do in adages, then turned the handle softly, pushed – also softly – and, carrying on into the interior, found myself confronted by a girl in housemaid's costume who put a hand to her throat like somebody in a play and leaped several inches in the direction of the ceiling. "Coo!" she said, having returned to terra firma and taken aboard a spot of breath. "You gave me a start, sir!" […] "If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now." "Coo! So he is."
The last track on each of the three sections is a professional course, where you can customise your bike by changing the tyres and the size of chainwheel. Coo!
We want you to come up with a side splitting caption for a picture drawn by the fair hand of those at System 3. If you turn out to be the Funniest "Person", we'll give you a big wopping model of a dinosaur. Coo.
Coo, I've only had four gallons of extra caffeine coffee today so I'm not my usual talking-to-PR-girlies-for-hours-on-end self. But bear with me a mo while I get myself together (audience waits for an age while he searches through his coat for the golden envelope). Here it is! Coo, and the winner is The NewZealand Story.
Derived words: coochy coo
coo-coo
cootchie-cootchie-coo
bill and coo
cooer
cooingly
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