Cooed vs Cooeed - What's the difference?
cooed | cooeed |
(coo)
The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
* 2013 , Nicola Cornick, One Night with the Laird (page 206)
Expression of fright, surprise, approval, etc.
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, passage=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.”}}
* 1988 , Sean Kelly, Professional BMX Simulator'' (video game review in ''Your Sinclair , issue 35, November 1988)
* 1989 , Competitions'' (in ''Sinclair User , issue 92, November 1989)
* 1990 , Crash readers' awards ceremony'' (in ''Crash , issue 75, April 1990)
(cooee)
(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 ,
As verbs the difference between cooed and cooeed
is that cooed is past tense of coo while cooeed is past tense of cooee.cooed
English
Verb
(head)coo
English
Etymology 1
Of onomatopoetic/imitative origin.Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other.
Derived terms
* cooer * cooinglyEtymology 2
Shortening of cool. Compare foo.Etymology 3
Interjection
(en interjection)- 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 .
- Mark: '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 New Zealand Story.'
Anagrams
* English three-letter words ----cooeed
English
Verb
(head)cooee
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.