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▪ I. cooing, vbl. n.|ˈkuːɪŋ|
[f. coo v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb coo.
1. lit.; see coo v. 1.
1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. i. 701 The Dove Ceases her Cooing. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. v. (1858) 257 The..doves..still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens.
2. transf.; see coo v. 2, 3.
1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 1272 Let not the Cooings of the World allure thee. 1821Byron Juan iii. viii, No one cares for matrimonial cooings. 1857Trollope Three Clerks xx, You may as well give over your billing and cooing.
▪ II. ˈcooing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That coos.
1665Howard & Dryden Ind. Queen iii. i, That murm'ring Noise that cooing Doves Use. 1832Tennyson Miller's Dau. vi, I often heard the cooing dove In firry woodlands mourn alone.
Hence ˈcooingly adv.
1818Keats Endymion i. 248 Turtles Passion their voices cooingly 'mong myrtles. 1863Cornh. Mag. VII. 735 Her mother kissed her cooingly as she would have kissed a baby. |