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coo¹
- /kuː/ UK
- /ku/ US
Sounds like coup · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic. Compare Dutch koeren.
noun coos
- The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon. 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[…].
- An expression of pleasure made by a person. 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-bein
verb coos · cooing · cooed
- To make a soft murmuring sound, similar to a dove or pigeon. No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo.
- To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about. They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other.
coo²
- /kuː/ UK
- /ku/ US
Sounds like coup · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
Imitative.
interjection
- An expression of approval, surprise, etc. 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 s
coo³
- /kuː/ UK
- /ku/ US
Sounds like coup · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
Clipping of cool. Compare foo (“fool”).
adjective more coo · most coo
- Pronunciation spelling of cool
COO⁴
noun COOs
- Initialism of chief operating officer Atsme similarly protested when editors sought to portray Trump as racist by referring to a reconstructed and uncorroborated conversation in a book by a former COO at one of Trump’s companies, which attributes to Trump defamatory and racist remarks against black people.
- Initialism of country of origin
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: ee, murmur, roo, director, chief, dah, bbc, huo, koo, kuo, coo-coo, drone, quawk, dook, murmuring, cooee
Translations
Every language
noun murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
| Español | arrullo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 咕 gū |
| Português | arrulho |
| Français | roucoulement |
| Deutsch | Gurren, Girren |
| Italiano | cuccu |
| Ελληνικά | γουργούρισμα gourgoúrisma |
| Русский | воркова́ние vorkovánije |
| Tiếng Việt | gù |
| العربية | قَرْقَرَة qarqara, مُنَاغَاة munāḡāh, هَدِيل hadīl |
| עברית | הֶמְיָה hemyá, המהום himhúm |
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