croonest

Verb

croon (third-person singular simple present croons, present participle crooning, simple past and past participle crooned)

1. (transitive) To hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song) in a low, mellow voice.
   • He was crooning a song.
2. (transitive) To soothe (a person or an animal) by singing softly.
   • [I]n his ill-remembered prayer, and in the fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep, there breathed as true a spirit as ever studied homily expressed, or old cathedral arches echoed.1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 73.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 364
3. (intransitive) To hum or sing, or to speak, softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing a popular song in a low, mellow voice.
   • She was crooning, but I couldn’t make out what the song was.

   Synonyms:

   coo

4. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To lament, to moan.
5. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To make a continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; to bellow, to low.
   • Novv Clinkumbell, vvi' rattlin tovv, / Begins to jovv an' croon; […]1786, Robert Burns, “The Holy Fair”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, stanza...
6. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) Of a large bell: to make a low-pitched sound.

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