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cooing

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coo  (k)
v. cooed, coo·ing, coos
v.intr.
1. To utter the murmuring sound of a dove or pigeon or a sound resembling it.
2. To talk fondly or amorously in murmurs: The visitors cooed over the newborn baby.
v.tr.
To express or utter with soft murmuring sounds.
[Imitative.]
cooer n.
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"For one so badly wounded," observed Sancho at this point, "this young man has a great deal to say; they should make him leave off billing and cooing, and attend to his soul; for to my thinking he has it more on his tongue than at his teeth.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
"I will tell you something," she said, in her cooing way, keeping her arms folded.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
And so she fell to murmuring and cooing over the girl again, and softly stroking her face and hair, and kissing her and calling her by endearing names; but there was scarcely sign of response now in the glazing eyes.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
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