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.
Advertisement

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.

Related Links

synonyms for coodescribing words for coo
Advertisement
#AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

© 2024 Copyright: WordPapa