goo-gooing

Once our child was born, about 98% of photos are of her goo-gooing and gaa-gaaing, and now running jumping and talking.

the snake eats itself 2006

Toby was crouching down by the playpen, goo-gooing with Jeffrey.

State of the Union Douglas Kennedy 2005

Scripture now and then, or a little goody-goody saying of some kind, and the duke he was around goo-gooing for sympathy all he knowed how, and just spreading himself generly.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

He turns around and begins to make a lot of signs to the duke with his hands, and the duke he looks at him stupid and leather-headed a while; then all of a sudden he seems to catch his meaning, and jumps for the king, goo-gooing with all his might for joy, and hugs him about fifteen times before he lets up.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

Indeed, The Hopper's spirits rose under his continued "goo-gooing" and chirruping.

A Reversible Santa Claus Meredith Nicholson 1906

On my seventy-fifth birthday, there will be a fine, healthy two-year-old babe crying and goo-gooing for my especial benefit, and by working backwards in your figuring you can also credit us with a three-year-old, a four-year-old, and so on up the line.

Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897

His signs warn't no good; people couldn't understand them and he prob'ly couldn't himself, but he done a sight of goo-gooing, and so everybody was satisfied, and admired to hear him go it.

Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

But Tom said he warn't able to make anything out of deef and dumb signs, and the same with goo-gooing.

Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

And when we see Jubiter Dunlap here spreading around in the very same disguise Jake told us HE was going to wear, we thought it was Jake his own self -- and he was goo-gooing deef and dumb, and THAT was according to agreement.

Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

And so he went a-mooning on and on, liking to hear himself talk, and every little while he fetched in his funeral orgies again, till the duke he couldn't stand it no more; so he writes on a little scrap of paper, "Obsequies, you old fool," and folds it up, and goes to goo-gooing and reaching it over people's heads to him.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884