Coost vs Coos - What's the difference?
coost | coos |
(obsolete, or, Scottish) (cast)
* {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Alexander Hislop, title=The Proverbs of Scotland, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I had but little butter, an' that I coost on the coals. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1780, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=, edition=
, passage=1783 Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe., The An Unco Mournfu' Tale As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, An' owre she warsl'd in the ditch: There, groaning, dying, she did lie, When Hughoc he cam doytin by. }}
(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.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, 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)
As verbs the difference between coost and coos
is that coost is past tense of cast while coos is third-person singular of coo.coost
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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.'