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Croon vs Croyn - What's the difference?

croon | croyn |

As verbs the difference between croon and croyn

is that croon is to hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner while croyn is (obsolete) cry as deer do at rutting time; murmur deeply.

As a noun croon

is a soft or sentimental hum or song.

croon

English

Verb

  • To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
  • To soothe by singing softly.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
  • (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
    • (Jamieson)

    Derived terms

    * crooner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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.” }}

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    croyn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) Cry as deer do at rutting time; murmur deeply.

    • References

    * New English Dictionary , by John Kersey, 1772 * Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English (containing words from the English writers previous to the nineteenth century which are no longer in use, or are not used in the same sense, and words which are now used only in the provincial dialects), by Thomas Wright (Esq., M.A., F.S.A., H.M.R.S.L., &c., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE), 1857 (p361) * A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century , by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881 (p283)

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