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Cooee vs Cooer - What's the difference?

cooee | cooer |

As nouns the difference between cooee and cooer

is that cooee is (australia|informal|onomatopoeia) a long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the australian bush while cooer is one who coos.

As a verb cooee

is (intransitive|australia|informal) to make such a call.

As an interjection cooee

is (informal|chiefly|australia|uk).

cooee

English

Alternative forms

* cooey * coo-ee

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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 , 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.
  • * 2006 , Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002'', in Drusilla Modjeska, ''The Best Australian Essays 2006 , page 309,
  • Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee'. ' Cooees were not part of the code.
  • A short distance; hailing distance.
  • * 1996 , , Parliamentary Debates Australia , Volume 207, page 1469,
  • That is not within cooee of 10 per cent; it is much closer to six per cent.
  • * 1999 , Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride , page 136,
  • We were carless, in the dark, and no one to help within cooee .

    Verb

    (d)
  • (intransitive, Australia, informal) To make such a call.
  • * 2001 , Robert Holden, Nicholas Holden, Bunyips: Australia's Folklore of Fear , 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.’
  • * 2003 , Les Hughes, A Young Australian Pioneer: Henry Mundy , page 225,
  • Slipping out of the tail of the dray, I cooeed as loud as I could which was answered.
  • * 2006 , Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002'', in Drusilla Modjeska, ''The Best Australian Essays 2006 , page 310,
  • I cooeed' back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I ' cooeed again.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (informal, chiefly, Australia, UK)
  • Cooee! I'm over here!
  • * 1894 , Temple Bar , Volume 183, page 587,
  • Then, raising her hands to her lips she utters a long, loud, piercing " Cooee ! "
    " Coo — ee ! " comes back over the black waters.
  • * 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 , page 58,
  • Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE', GAYGAR! ' COOEE , GAYGAR!" they would cry.

    Synonyms

    * ahoy! (nautical) * hey! * oi! (impolite) * yoohoo!

    References

    cooer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who coos.
  • * 1863 , Henry Gardiner Adams, Our feathered families (page 334)
  • The best Pigeon House, of course, is one made expressly for the purpose — about square, with a shelving roof. Here the compartments can be made sufficiently wide and high; say a foot and a half, or even two feet each way. The latter is a comfortable chamber for the pair of cooers .