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coo

[koo] / ku /
VERB
murmur or talk fondly or amorously
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If at all possible, you should live in a place where you don't have to constantly be looking over your shoulder in fear while you coo at the baby.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024

They coo and fuss over the infant, swap feeding and nappy-changing duties, and take turns to stay with him so one of them can get some sleep.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023

With their bobbing heads, clumsy gaits and dull-sounding "coo" noises, pigeons are often mistaken for being downright stupid pests.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2023

A bit hesitant at first to exchange phone numbers, “we took a giant step,” Ms. Geanoules said, pausing to pat and coo at one of the Abbys.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

Laurie had christened it, saying it was highly appropriate to the gentle lovers who ‘went on together like a pair of turtledoves, with first a bill and then a coo’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

When she rebuffs him by calling him an animal, he smiles widely, showcasing fangs one could rightly describe as gorgeous, and coos, “We are all animals, my lady.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

In one of their most popular videos, the pair coos to the camera.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

“Slap the City” clatters and coos with R&B falsetto and at least makes the blank nihilism of Drake’s dating life feel self-aware.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

“Daddy’s taking movies again,” coos Nicole, who met Simpson when she was 18, as she cuddles her infant child on the beach.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

“It’s all right, dear. Everything’s all right,” she coos.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

As she peeled one away and put forward the next, she cooed about the baby: so beautiful, so healthy.

From Slate ● May 2, 2025

“Hey, little muffin! Look at you,” he cooed as tiny Finn was toted into the picture, smoosh-face and all, carried by mama Kylie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

"Look at the children. They're so cute," she cooed.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024

He cooed back and started following me around,” Mr. Hartline, 66, said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

He cooed at her, but it turned into a whine.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

One brother does the firing, the other waves goodbye, cooing, “We hope we can still be friends who never speak to each other.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

There were gurgling, cooing, month-and-a-half old newborns in Brooklyn and Westchester who had never known the soul-emptying pain of a crushing Knicks defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

“Nah,” I thought, as I watched the cooing baby in my arms.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

"You have to think a lot before having a baby," Valentina Dottor admits when we meet on Fregona's main square, her 10-month-old daughter Diletta cooing in a pushchair.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025

It wasn’t just their sweet faces and lovely cooing that made the hummingbears so irresistible.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate


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