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Definition: Coo |
CooNoun1. The sound made by a pigeon. Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
COO | Dutch | Computer ondersteund onderwijs | N/A |
COO | English | Cotonou | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Coo |
| English words defined with "coo": Chirre, Cooed, Croodle, Curr. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coo": honey stone ♦ Kyle. (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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Pigeon coo. | Baby coo. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 79.55% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Unclassified Items | 9.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Interjection | 4.55% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
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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 murmurar (bicker, brawl, bubble, croon, gossip, groan, grumble, gurgle, ha, hum, lip, murmur, mutter, prattle, purl, repine, sough, whisper), arrulhar. (various references) ugui (babble), gânguri (babble). (various references) ворковать, воркование. (various references) tepati (babble), gugutati, gugutanje. (various references) arrullo (lullaby). (various references) kuttra. (various references) เสียงร้องของนกพิราบหรือนกเขา, กระซิบกระซาบ. (various references) 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) воркувати (crood), воркування. (various references) tiếng gù của b" câu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coo" (pronounced kuw") |
| 2 | k uw" | coup, coups. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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