Coo

//kuː// adj, intj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Cool. slang
Intj
  1. 1
    An expression of approval, fright, surprise, etc.

    "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.""

Noun
  1. 1
    The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.

    "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[…]."

  2. 2
    Initialism of chief operating officer. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "Atsme similarly protested when editors sought to portray Trump as racist by referring to a reconstructed and uncorroborated conversation in a book by a former COO at one of Trump’s companies, which attributes to Trump defamatory and racist remarks against black people."

  3. 3
    the sound made by a pigeon wordnet
  4. 4
    An expression of pleasure made by a person. broadly

    "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."

  5. 5
    Initialism of country of origin. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon. ambitransitive

    "No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo."

  2. 2
    cry softly, as of pigeons wordnet
  3. 3
    To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about. intransitive

    "They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other."

  4. 4
    speak softly or lovingly wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren.

Etymology 3

Clipping of cool; compare foo.

Etymology 4

Imitative.

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