单词 | cooing |
释义 | cooingn. The action of coo v. 1. literal; see coo v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > pigeon > sound made by cooing1695 coo1729 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > dove > sound made by cooing1695 coo1729 doling1848 roucoulement1853 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 22 The Dove Ceases her Cooing. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) v. 257 The..doves..still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens. 2. transferred; see coo v. 2, 3. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [noun] > coo or crool cooing1745 crool1938 the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > conversing caressingly or amorously turtling1669 billing1733 cooing1821 turtle-doveism1850 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 63 Let not the Cooings of the World allure thee. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III viii. 7 No one cares for matrimonial cooings. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. iv. 82 You may as well give over billing and cooing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019). cooingadj. That coos. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [adjective] > of or belonging to pigeon and dove > making sound cooing1665 1665 R. Howard & J. Dryden Indian-queen iii, in R. Howard Four New Plays 157 That murm'ring noise that cooing Doves Use. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter vi, in Poems (new ed.) 35 I often heard the cooing dove In firry woodlands mourn alone. Derivatives ˈcooingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [adverb] > coo cooingly1818 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 15 Turtles Passion their voices cooingly 'mong myrtles. 1863 Cornhill Mag. June 735 Her mother kissed her cooingly as she would have kissed a baby. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1695adj.1665 |
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