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Coo

Definition: Coo

Coo

Noun

1. The sound made by a pigeon.

Verb

1. Speak softly or lovingly; "The mother who held her baby was cooing softly".

2. Cry softly, as of pigeons.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "coo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Note: Coo \Coo\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Cooed; present participle verb or noun Cooing.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Coo

DomainDefinition

Slang

Noun Phrase. Source: Highschool students chatting over the internet. Definition: Being cool about something. Context: Often used when you agree with other person's opinion. People spell differently intentionary as well. Social Source: Internet Chatting Users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Coo

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

COO

DutchComputer ondersteund onderwijsN/A

COO

EnglishCotonouN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Coo

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Endearment

Bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Coo

English words defined with "coo": Chirre, Cooed, Croodle, Curr. (references)
Specialty definitions using "coo": honey stoneKyle. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Coo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Lombard (head, pate), Manx (cur, dog, hound, wolf-dog).

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Modern Usage: Coo

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Oh, here we go. I am the bug man, coo coo cachoo! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Lyrics

It's a kiss a diss and trade it for a coo hah (Just Push Play; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Ma ma coo sa (Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa (Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Movie/TV Titles

Coo Coo Nuts (1970)

Bill and Coo (1948)

Coo Coo Bird (1947)

Song Titles

Coo Coo-U (performing artist: Kingston Trio)

WHO'D SHE COO (performing artist: OHIO PLAYERS)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Coo

DomainTitle

Books

  • Daisy Says Coo! (First Daisy Book) (reference)

  • Eva Coo, Murderess (reference)

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Cooper Companies - COO [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Rover and Coo Coo (Star & Elephant Book) (reference)

  • Ruffle Coo & Hoo Doo (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Inspector Gadget:Coo Coo Clock Caper (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Coo".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Pigeon coo.Baby coo.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coo

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Burma

In December 1999, U Than Chaun, the owner of a coffee shop in Shwe Coo township of Kachin State, was arrested and sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment with hard labor for having the radio in his coffee shop tuned to Voice of America. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

For more information, contact: Michael Cooper, COO, Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund, 531 Seyfullina St., Almaty, Kazakhstan 480083; Tel: 7 (3272) 587-912; Fax: 7 (3272) 587-913. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Coo

"Coo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.55% of the time. "Coo" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)79.55%3558,339
Unclassified Items9.09%4175,879
Noun (proper)6.82%3202,518
Interjection4.55%2245,945
                    Total100.00%44N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Coo

Expressions using "coo": bill and coo coo of a pigeon To bill and coo. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "coo": Coo-ca-choo, Coo-ca-choo', coo-coo, coo-coo-coo, coo-cooed, coo-cooo, coo-cooo-cuh, coo-ed, coo-ee, coo-ing, coo-leee, coo-roo-coo, coo-roo-uh.

Ending with "coo": coo-coo, coo-coo-coo, coo-roo-coo, cootchy-coo, cootchy-wootchy-coo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coo

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coo

180

coo duty

3

coo coo cal

80

chart coo nonprofit salary

3

coo coo clock

70

coo farmer insurance

3

coo ny

68

coo job

3

coo job description

16

chocho clitoris coo flash flashsexo gay gay homosexuales mamadas masturbation poll pornoexcite ramera sex sexo

3

one flew over the coo coos nest

13

2003 canada company coo in president

3

coo j ll

13

coo girl

3

coo coo

9

clock coo coo repair

3

cal coo coo lyrics

7

coo resume

3

coo van watervallen

6

coo compensation

3

rock roll hoochie coo

6

coo petencia

3

bird coo coo

5

boo coo

2

chime clock clock clock coo coo grandmother

5

2003 canada company coo in president yahoo

2

coo coo marlin

5

coo leti

2

ca choo coo coo

5

coo crazy firework

2

clock coo

4

coo watervallen

2

bill coo

4

best coo fryer

2

cascade coo de

4

clock coo koo

2

cachoo coo coo

4

bill and coo movie

2

coo salary

4

black forest coo coo clock

2

coo cool

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coo

Language Translations for "coo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

gugatje (babble, babblement, crow), gugas (crow). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هدل للحمام, ‏سجع (assonance, note). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гукане, гукам (crow). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vrkat. (various references)

   

Danish

  

sea-gull murmur (dove coo murmur, sea gull murmur), mågeskrig-mislyd (dove coo murmur, sea gull murmur). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

koeren (bill and coo). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kolombumi (bill and coo). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

صدای کبوتروقمری , اهسته بازمزمه اداکردن , بغبغوکردن , باصدای نرم وعاشقانه سخن گفتن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kuhertaa. (various references)

   

French

  

roucouler. (various references)

   

German

  

gurren. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γουργουρίζω σαν την περιστέρα, μουρμουρίζω (burble, croon, grouse, grunt, mumble, murmur, mutter), ερωτολογώ (spoon, woo), τρυφερολόγημα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

turbékolás (billing and cooing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tubare. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cauaigey (cooing, moan, murmer, murmuring), cauaig (buzz, buzz of crowd, moan, murmer), caaghey (caw, croak). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oocay

   

Portuguese

  

murmurar (bicker, brawl, bubble, croon, gossip, groan, grumble, gurgle, ha, hum, lip, murmur, mutter, prattle, purl, repine, sough, whisper), arrulhar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ugui (babble), gânguri (babble). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ворковать, воркование. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tepati (babble), gugutati, gugutanje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

arrullo (lullaby). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kuttra. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เสียงร้องของนกพิราบหรือนกเขา, กระซิบกระซาบ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cıvıldamak (cheep, chirp, tweet, twitter), mırıldanmak (croon, fret and fume, grizzle, grumble, hum, mump, murmur, mutter, pur, purr), ötmek (caw, crow, honk, hoop, hoot, jug, sing, sing out, warble, whistle). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

воркувати (crood), воркування. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tiếng gù của b" câu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coo

Derivations

Words beginning with "coo": cooch, cooches, coocoo, cooed, cooee, cooeed, cooeeing, cooees, cooer, cooers, cooey, cooeyed, cooeying, cooeys, coof, coofs, cooing, cooingly, cook, cookable, cookbook, cookbooks, cooked, cooker, cookeries, cookers, cookery, cookey, cookeys, cookhouse, cookhouses, cookie, cookies, cooking, cookings, cookless, cookoff, cookoffs, cookout, cookouts, cooks, cookshack, cookshacks, cookshop, cookshops, cookstove, cookstoves, cooktop, cooktops, cookware, cookwares. (additional references)

Words ending with "coo": coocoo. (additional references)

Words containing "coo": bandicoot, bandicoots, barracoon, barracoons, cocoon, cocooned, cocooning, cocoonings, cocoons, hencoop, hencoops, incoordination, incoordinations, intercooler, intercoolers, miscook, miscooked, miscooking, miscooks, noncooperation, noncooperationist, noncooperationists, noncooperations, noncooperative, noncooperator, noncooperators, outcook, outcooked, outcooking, outcooks, outscoop, outscooped, outscooping, outscoops, overcook, overcooked, overcooking, overcooks, overcool, overcooled, overcooling, overcools, precook, precooked, precooking, precooks, precool, precooled, precooling, precools, puccoon. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Coo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aoo, cao, cco, Cdo, ce, ceoc, cfo, cio, cko, clo, cloo, cno, Cnooc, coa, codo, cogo, coi, coiv, coj, Cok, cono, coob, cood, cooe, coof, coog, cooi, cooo, coooo, cooq, Coor, coow, cooz, copo, cosom, Coto, cou, couf, coui, coum, couw, coux, couz, cov, Covox, coxo, croo, cto, Cuco, cudo, culo, cuno, cuo, cuso, Cuu, Cuyo, cvo, cwo, czo, Gcu, jcu, Khoo, ko, koho, Komo, Koob, kou, ocao, ocho, oci, ocio, Ocko, Oclo, oco, ocoe, ocpo, Octo, ocu, oo, oooo, soo, Ucko, voo, Xoo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Coo"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "coo" (pronounced kuw")
2k uw"coup, coups.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Coo

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-o-o"
 

+1 letter: coco, coho, coof, cook, cool, coon, coop, coos, coot, loco, poco.

 

+2 letters: achoo, cholo, chook, cloot, cocoa, cocos, codon, cogon, cohog, cohos, colog, colon, color, combo, compo, condo, congo, conto, cooch, cooed, cooee, cooer, cooey, coofs, cooks, cooky, cools, cooly, coomb, coons, coops, coopt, coots, crook, croon, hooch, jocko, locos, mooch, pooch, scoop, scoot, socko.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Sounds
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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