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coos

/kuːz/

coos is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coo.

coos is the plural 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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Noun capitalized: COOs

COOs

  1. (plural) plural of COO

Phrases with coos

Words that rhyme with coos

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Questions about coos

What is coos the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Coos is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coo.
What part of speech is coos?
Coos is a noun.
How do you pronounce coos?
Coos is pronounced /kuːz/.

Words near coos in the dictionary

  1. Coors
  2. coorse
  3. coorses
  4. coort
  5. coorts
  6. coos
  7. Coos Bay
  8. Coos County
  9. Coosa
  10. Coosa County
  11. Coosan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coos (page history and authors); COOs (page history and authors); coo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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