What is the difference between ahoy and cooee?
ahoy | cooee | Synonyms |
(nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
* 1751: While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’'', (The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle), (Tobias Smollett).
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(Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
* 2002 , Andrew Parkin, A Thing Apart ,
* 2006 , Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002'', in Drusilla Modjeska, ''The Best Australian Essays 2006 ,
A short distance; hailing distance.
* 1996 , , Parliamentary Debates Australia , Volume 207,
* 1999 , Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride ,
(intransitive, Australia, informal) To make such a call.
* 2001 , Robert Holden, Nicholas Holden, Bunyips: Australia's Folklore of Fear ,
* 2003 , Les Hughes, A Young Australian Pioneer: Henry Mundy ,
* 2006 , Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002'', in Drusilla Modjeska, ''The Best Australian Essays 2006 ,
(informal, chiefly, Australia, UK)
* 1894 , Temple Bar , Volume 183,
* 2001 , June E. Barker, First Platypus, Gaygar—The Little Mother Duck'', in Helen F. McKay (editor), Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace Jones, June E. Barker, ''Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming ,
Ahoy is a synonym of cooee.
As interjections the difference between ahoy and cooee
is that ahoy is (nautical) used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention while cooee is (informal|chiefly|australia).As verbs the difference between ahoy and cooee
is that ahoy is to hail with a cry of "ahoy" while cooee is (intransitive|australia|informal) to make such a call.As a noun cooee is
(australia|informal|onomatopoeia) a long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the australian bush.ahoy
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy! ” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
Usage notes
* Traditionally, when used from a ship to hail an approaching boat, the standard responses are: ** "aye aye", if a commissioned officer is in the boat; ** "no no", if no officer is in the boat; ** name of ship , if the captain of another ship is in the boat; ** "flag" if an admiral is in the boat.Derived terms
* land ahoy * ship ahoy * ahoj (Czech, Slovak greeting)Anagrams
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See also
* yoohoocooee
English
Alternative forms
* cooey * coo-eeNoun
(en noun)page 195,
- I call out, “Coo-ee” with long Coo and short ee like whip-bird call. Everybody in my mob know my cooee'. Any one of my mob hear that, they give me ' cooee back.
- I listen.
- No cooee come back.
page 309,
- Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee'. ' Cooees were not part of the code.
page 1469,
- That is not within cooee of 10 per cent; it is much closer to six per cent.
page 136,
- We were carless, in the dark, and no one to help within cooee .
Verb
(d)page 65,
- ‘Look out for snakes,’ said Long Charlie, flourishing his lantern. ‘And don?t all of us be coo-eeing all the time, or when the little chap sings out we shan't be able to hear him.’
page 225,
- Slipping out of the tail of the dray, I cooeed as loud as I could which was answered.
page 310,
- I cooeed' back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I ' cooeed again.
Interjection
(en interjection)- Cooee! I'm over here!
page 587,
- Then, raising her hands to her lips she utters a long, loud, piercing " Cooee ! "
- " Coo — ee ! " comes back over the black waters.
page 58,
- Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE', GAYGAR! ' COOEE , GAYGAR!" they would cry.