What is another word for coo?

Pronunciation: [kˈuː] (IPA)

When someone says "coo," the first thing that comes to mind is the soothing sound made by a dove or pigeon. However, there are several synonyms for this word as well. Some popular options are murmur, warble, chirp, trill, or twitter, depending on the context in which the word is being used. While most of these words are still associated with birds, some can also be used to describe the sound made by other animals, such as a cat's purr. In addition, coo can be used to describe human communication too, such as a mother's gentle cooing to her baby.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Coo?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Coo

Overhead a pigeon tries to coo to the end of its sentence and loses the word at the end every time, and a green parrot fights with a crow and finally drives it into another tree, and flies eat my lunch, or breakfast rather, and ants eat me, and I gnaw my pipe with vexation.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Doves come and flutter and coo above us, and a pariah dog prowls round timidly.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
The Stork at the fountain was now singing an odd little song in a soft, cooing voice, and as Dot listened she caught the following words: coo-oo-oo, coo-oo-oo!
"Dot and Tot of Merryland"
L. Frank Baum

Famous quotes with Coo

  • From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound, A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees, and ground. The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo.
    Richard Watson Gilder
  • Six hours like this for a few francs. Belly nipple arse in the window light, he drains the colour from me. Further to the right, Madame. And do try to be still. I shall be represented analytically and hung in great museums. The bourgeoisie will coo at such an image of a river-whore. They call it Art.
    Carol Ann Duffy
  • I believe, that certain people — especially, perhaps, in Britain — have a lifelong appetite for juvenile trash. … You can see it in the tone they fall into when they talk about Tolkien in print: they bubble, they squeal, they coo; they go on about Malory and Spenser — both of whom have a charm and a distinction that Tolkien has never touched. As for me, if we must read about imaginary kingdoms, give me James Branch Cabell's Poictesme. He at least writes for grown-up people, and he does not present the drama of life as a showdown between Good People and Goblins. He can cover more ground in an episode that lasts only three pages than Tolkien is able to in one of this twenty-page chapters, and he can create a more disquieting impression by a reference to something that is never described than Tolkien through his whole demonology.
    J. R. R. Tolkien
  • There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety — garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo. Inessential insanities get one in trouble with one's self. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar... and is devoted to the inessential.
    Tom Robbins

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