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cooingly

cooingly adverb: in a cooing way.

Adverb

cooingly (comparative more cooingly, superlative most cooingly)

  1. In a cooing way.
    • "Ruperet," she said, cooingly, "Ruperet, you must be very, very careful."1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 376
    • Unlike Mr. Daniels, Ms. Harden had previously encountered Mr. Gandolfini, whom she almost cooingly described as soulful.2009 March 22, Deborah Sontag, “The Alpha Males of ‘Carnage’”, in New York Times

Forms of cooingly

comparativemore cooingly
superlativemost cooingly

Origin of cooingly

From cooing + -ly.

Questions about cooingly

What does cooingly mean?
Cooingly means in a cooing way.
What part of speech is cooingly?
Cooingly is an adverb.

Words near cooingly in the dictionary

  1. Coogans
  2. Coogee
  3. Coohee
  4. Coohees
  5. cooing
  6. cooingly
  7. cooings
  8. cooish
  9. cooishes
  10. cooja
  11. coojah

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