COO


Meaning of COO in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The baby cooed as I held her.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A maid, Nancy Brown, was appointed to wait on her and hairdressers hovered over her cooing their praises.

After recovering from an attack of shallow breathing he recovered and one nurse said he was smiling and cooing in his cot.

And, according to the radio, doves were cooing in the Kremlin.

He spoke of pretty girls cooing to him on college campuses and of assistant coaches questioning his manhood.

Other parents feel drained, with little emotional energy to devote to smiling and cooing at a seemingly uninterested child.

So the guards helped him down, cooing still.

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

Immediately the pigeons began to strut and flutter out, billing and cooing with pleasure.

In August, however, she and Andrew were billing and cooing about each other in Hello! magazine.

One is the Prime Minister, who now bills and coos where she used to bellow.

With wheedling beaks, her brilliant needles bill and coo.

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