coo

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Of onomatopoetic/imitative origin.

Noun [edit]

coo (uncountable)

  1. The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
Translations [edit]
murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon

Verb [edit]

coo (third-person singular simple present coos, present participle cooing, simple past and past participle cooed)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
  2. (intransitive) To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon
admire

Etymology 2 [edit]

Shortening of cool. Compare foo.

Adjective [edit]

coo (comparative more coo, superlative most coo)

  1. (slang) cool

Etymology 3 [edit]

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Interjection [edit]

coo

  1. Expression of fright, surprise, approval, etc.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:
      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)
      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!
    • 1989, Competitions (in Sinclair User, issue 92, November 1989)
      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.
    • 1990, Crash readers' awards ceremony (in Crash, issue 75, April 1990)
      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.'
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Manx [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Irish cú (“dog, hound”), from Proto-Celtic *kū, *kwū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”).

Noun [edit]

coo m (genitive coo, plural coyin)

  1. dog
  2. hound
  3. cur
  4. wolf-dog

Mutation [edit]

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coo choo goo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Derived terms

Portuguese [edit]

Verb [edit]

coo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of coar

Scots [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old English cū, from Proto-Germanic *kūz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

coo (plural kye or coos)

  1. cow

Usage notes [edit]

The regular collective plural form is kye (from Old English); the weak plural coos is used only after numerals.

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