coo
/ku/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.30 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An expression of pleasure made by a person.
intj
An expression of approval, surprise, etc.
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "The male [ring dove] will continue nest-coos for 3–4 days until his female partner begins to nest-coo. At that point the male's nest-coo begins to become less frequent[…]."
- "An infant has only cries and coos with which to communicate distress and well-being. Adults have many more ways of expressing themselves. However, their expressions of disease and ease can be boiled down to sophisticated cries and coos. A call for help in whatever form is a cry. A sense of well-being however expressed is a coo. Healing in the context of cries and coos can be viewed as the process of resolving the cries and fostering the coos."
- "No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo."
- "DUET—MAYOR and MAUD. […] Like a Dove I'll coo and bill, pretty Maud, / I will not coo and bill, Mr. Mayor."
- "But oh! ſhall I, Misfortune's bondman, ſpeak / Of pleaſures and delights, where ſorrows ſhriek! / Can plaintive nightingale, or turte-dove, / When vultures tear them, ſing or coo of love?"
- "The black-bird and the speckled thrush / Good-morrow gave from brake and brush; / In answer cooed the cushat dove, / Her notes of peace, and rest, and love."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ku/
- British English: /kuː/
Usage
Inflected Forms
coos (plural)
coos (present, singular)
cooing (participle, present)
cooed (participle, past)
cooed (past)
more coo (comparative)
most coo (superlative)