Meaning

2 senses
  1. (ambitransitive)To make a soft murmuring sound, similar to a dove or pigeon.

    girren, gurren, rucksen

    воркова́тьvorkovátʹ

  2. (intransitive)To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.

More definitions
  • cry softly, as of pigeons
  • speak softly or lovingly

Examples

22 sentences
  1. I can often hear pigeons cooing outside my bedroom window.

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  2. I am cooing like a pigeon.

    ruЯ воркую как голубь.

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  3. Is my coochy coo bunny annoyed?

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  4. The pigeon is cooing on the balcony.

    ruГолубь воркует на балконе.

    deDie Taube gurrt auf dem Balkon.

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  5. Why is my coochy coo bunny crying?

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to make a soft murmuring sound:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make a soft murmuring sound:

Origin

Onomatopoeic. Compare Dutch koeren.

Onomatopoeic. Compare Dutch koeren.

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Forms

coos, cooing, cooed, cooed
Base formcoo · to coo
3rd person singularcoos
Present participlecooing
Past simplecooed
Past participlecooed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycoo
he, she, itcoos

Past simpleLesson

all personscooed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cooed
he, she, ithas cooed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill coo

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
coo — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto