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- verb Present participle of
cooee .
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Examples
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The draft horses began walking, Tom and Dominic cooeeing shrilly as the raft began to float.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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_ (Figures wind serpenting in slow woodland pattern around the treestems, cooeeing) _
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The boy had left the camp in the morning, after their first night's tramp, and coming across the tracks of some natives, ran them up, finding another well at their camp, by the time he got back, the party had been obliged to start without him; fortunately, he heard the tinkle of the camel bell as he crossed the sandhills, and by cooeeing loudly managed to attract attention.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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"Father, why didn't you come before?" he said; "we were cooeeing for you."
mjk commented on the word cooeeing
'cooeeing' -- longest run of vowels in an English word? Hooeyism?? or hooeyish??
July 3, 2011