cooing

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But of all the people on here cooing about it, how many are actually using the tool?

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Quick take

A coo; a cooing sound.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cooing gathered in one view.

noun

A coo; a cooing sound.

noun

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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cooing.

noun

A coo; a cooing sound.

noun

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.

Example sentences

But of all the people on here cooing about it, how many are actually using the tool?

While her brother was all eye contact and cooing, she was always in her own world.

The gathered troops here were all cooing at this demo until the drop shadow was noticed as absent from the arrow.

Then there is this particular cooing, laughing baby sound effect that drives me nuts.

You do know about the 1930s phenomenon of diplomats and other prominenti flying home cooing about how Herr Hitler is greatly misunderstood?

Now can you please show us something that's designed to evoke a response other than cooing in delight of your wonderful technical achievements?

My wife laughed hard when I ordered it, but after testing it out she was practically cooing.

You wouldn't believe some of the soft-focused fawning and cooing Adams has received from mainstream sources, if you somehow haven't seen it yourself already.

He is often deferred to and supported by a bevel of cooing ladies who seem oblivious to the power dynamic underlying the whole thing.

Captures audio / biometrics and responds to the baby with targeted music, positive affirmations, cooing, etc, to promote positive emotional state.

When he started babbling and cooing, I moved to the back of the room.

There are people who seem really interested in making stuff happen and there are people who are surprised you expect anything more than sympathetic cooing noises.

Quote examples

That tracks--now I'm imagining some doting parent cooing: "Who's my cute iddle-widdle Humuhumunukunukuapua'a?

As a counterpoint, Ligotti in Conspiracy against the human race: “One cringes to hear scientists cooing over the universe or any part thereof like schoolgirls over-heated by their first crush.

"When the sisters talked to each other, it sounded like a slow, blurred cooing." It's interesting how isolation does to a spoken language in only one generation.

From personal observations, they seem to emit some sort of aura that induce people (in particular post-puberty to adult females humans who I'm trying to date) to emotionally melt down and make incomprehensible "cooing" noises.