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cooing

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkuːɪŋ//

A coo; a cooing sound.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of coopresent participle and gerund of coo

noun

  1. 1

    A coo; a cooing sound.

  2. 2

    A stage in the development of child language after crying and before babbling; the baby is able to control their sounds but tongue muscles are not well developed.

Forms

plural
cooings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).