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cooed

/kuːd/

cooed is the simple past and past participle of coo.

Meaning of coo

Verb

coo (third-person singular simple present coos, present participle cooing, simple past and past participle cooed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make a soft murmuring sound, similar to a dove or pigeon.
    • No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo.1763, C[harles] Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine. A Scots Pastoral, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the author, and sold by G. Kearsly, in Ludgate-street, →OCLC, page 15
  2. (intransitive) 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.2013, Nicola Cornick, chapter 14, in One Night with the Laird (Harlequin HQN Historical Romance), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin HQN, →ISBN

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Phrases with cooed

Words that rhyme with cooed

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Questions about cooed

What is cooed the simple past and past participle of?
Cooed is the simple past and past participle of coo.
How do you pronounce cooed?
Cooed is pronounced /kuːd/.

Words near cooed in the dictionary

  1. cood
  2. Coode
  3. Cooden
  4. Coody
  5. Coodys
  6. cooed
  7. cooee
  8. cooeed
  9. cooeeing
  10. cooees
  11. cooer

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