coo
IPA: kˈu
noun
- The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
- (by extension) An expression of pleasure made by a person.
- Initialism of chief operating officer. [(business) A corporate officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for executing decisions of the chief executive officer (CEO) according to their decided schedule; often initialised as COO.]
- (international trade) Initialism of country of origin. [(law) The country in which a person or thing is deemed to have originated for the purposes of laws and regulations.]
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
- (intransitive) To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
adjective
- (slang) Cool.
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Examples of "coo" in Sentences
- Elizabeth, with what the girl called a coo in her voice.
- I don't b'Iieve he's anywhere within coo-ee of our place.
- "I've been standing up there," he complained, "for three or four minutes calling coo-ee, and you never answered once!"
- But the study also identified texting-specific dialect: Southern Californians thumb "coo," for "cool," for example, while Northern Californians opt for "koo."
- Carl Kay, of Tokyo, wrote, “When a long-sullen baby suddenly expresses contentment in response to the exaggerated gestures of an adult, it is called a coo de théâtre.”
- An interpretation might go like this: The a coo akab (mad one of the night, i.e. the screech owl) above the 13th heaven is perched upon the shoulders of Colel (another name for Ixchel).
- In a few days after, whilst at home, the king sent for me and said he wished me to live with him entirely, so, accordingly, I remained in his house, and he appointed me a Che-re-coo, that is a kind of body guard to the king.
- Indeed, with the stressed last syllable of its voice, the bird might well have been termed the coo-bird to begin with, which eliminates the need for the postulated abbreviation, even for any association with the Old World bird.
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