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单词 cooing
释义

cooingn.

/ˈkuːɪŋ/
Etymology: < coo v. + -ing suffix1.
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.

Etymology: formed as coo v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcooing.
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).
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