Cooley vs Vooley - What's the difference?
cooley | vooley |
Eye dialect spelling indicating a non-French-speaker pronouncing the French word voulez.
*1991 , James White, Clara's Call, Unknown Soldier , page 18:
*1935 , Crosbie Garstin, The Sunshine Settlers , page 226:
*1923 , Woman's Home Companion , Volume 50, Issues 7-12, page 8:
As a proper noun cooley
is .As a verb vooley is
eye dialect spelling indicating a non-french-speaker pronouncing the french word voulez.vooley
English
Verb
vooley- She implied that a fully modern girl like herself didn't need to be told what happened after a man asked, "Vooley voo?" She thought a man's man could be forgiven what he did while he was far from home and close to death.
- "Non, course not," the farrier grumbled. "We're hout in the medders makin' daisy-chains an' henjoyin' the glorious sunshine. Ker vooley voo? Coin' to start one o' yer popular fatigues?"
- "Vooley' voo le ' vooley voo," said he fiercely, at the same time looking at me suspiciously.