I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The baby cooed as I held her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A maid, Nancy Brown, was appointed to wait on her and hairdressers hovered over her cooing their praises.
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After recovering from an attack of shallow breathing he recovered and one nurse said he was smiling and cooing in his cot.
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And, according to the radio, doves were cooing in the Kremlin.
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He spoke of pretty girls cooing to him on college campuses and of assistant coaches questioning his manhood.
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Other parents feel drained, with little emotional energy to devote to smiling and cooing at a seemingly uninterested child.
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So the guards helped him down, cooing still.
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We all watched as Alice stopped to coo at two canaries in a silver cage on the porch.
II. interjection
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bill and coo
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Immediately the pigeons began to strut and flutter out, billing and cooing with pleasure.
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In August, however, she and Andrew were billing and cooing about each other in Hello! magazine.
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One is the Prime Minister, who now bills and coos where she used to bellow.
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With wheedling beaks, her brilliant needles bill and coo.