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The soft, low sound a dove or pigeon makes. It's also used for the soft, loving sounds and gentle talk people make to a baby — parents cooing over a new baby.
(鴿子)咕咕叫；(對嬰兒)輕聲細語
組成This word imitates the sound itself — it's onomatopoeia, like "buzz" or "moo."
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
coonoun詞源 1/kuː/
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The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
- The male [ring dove] will continue nest-coos for 3–4 days until his female partner begins to nest-coo. At that point the male's nest-coo begins to become less frequent[…].
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An expression of pleasure made by a person.
- An infant has only cries and coos with which to communicate distress and well-being. Adults have many more ways of expressing themselves. However, their expressions of disease and ease can be boiled down to sophisticated cries and coos. A call for help in whatever form is a cry. A sense of well-being however expressed is a coo. Healing in the context of cries and coos can be viewed as the process of resolving the cries and fostering the coos.
cooverb詞源 1/kuː/
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To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
- No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo.
- DUET—MAYOR and MAUD. […] Like a Dove I'll coo and bill, pretty Maud, / I will not coo and bill, Mr. Mayor.
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To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
- They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other.
cooadj詞源 2/kuː/
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slangCool.
coointj詞源 3/kuː/
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An expression of approval, surprise, etc.
- I stood outside the door for a space, letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would", as Jeeves tells me cats do in adages, then turned the handle softly, pushed – also softly – and, carrying on into the interior, found myself confronted by a girl in housemaid's costume who put a hand to her throat like somebody in a play and leaped several inches in the direction of the ceiling. "Coo!" she said, having returned to terra firma and taken aboard a spot of breath. "You gave me a start, sir!" […] "If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now." "Coo! So he is."
- The last track on each of the three sections is a professional course, where you can customise your bike by changing the tyres and the size of chainwheel. Coo!
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。