Croon vs Caroon - What's the difference?
croon | caroon |
To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
* Charlotte Brontë
To soothe by singing softly.
* Charles Dickens
(Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
A soft or sentimental hum or song.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
:1859 ,
::Half-a-crown'' is known as an (alderman), (half a bull), (half a tusheroon), and a (madza caroon); whilst a ''crown'' piece, or ''five shillings , may be called either a (bull), or a (caroon), or a (cartwheel), or a (coachwheel), or a (thick-un), or a (tusheroon).
As nouns the difference between croon and caroon
is that croon is a soft or sentimental hum or song while caroon is a crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.As a verb croon
is to hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.croon
English
Verb
- Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
- The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
- (Jamieson)
Derived terms
* croonerNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.” }}