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Meaning of "cooee" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COOEE

From a native Australian language.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COOEE

cooee  [ˈkuːiː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COOEE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cooee is a verb and can also act as a noun and an exclamation.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cooee in English.



Exclamation is an expression or voice that reflects an emotion or exaltation.

WHAT DOES COOEE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cooee

Cooee! is a shout used in Australia, usually in the Bush, to attract attention, find missing people, or indicate one's own location. When done correctly - loudly and shrilly - a call of "cooee" can carry over a considerable distance. The distance one's cooee call travels can be a matter of competitive pride. It is also known as a call of help, which can blend in with different natural sounds in the bush. The word "cooee" originates from the Dharuk language of the original inhabitants of the Sydney area. It means "come here", and has now become widely used in Australia as a call over distances. It was known among white settlers in colonial times and Watkin Tench refers to the Aborigines of Sydney calling to each other in this way. One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries hinges on the use of "cooee!". "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" is solved partly because, unlike everyone else, Holmes recognizes the call is commonly used among Australians. An expression "within cooee of" has developed. It means "within a manageable distance", and seems to be confined to New Zealand and Australian English, and is often used in the negative sense.

Definition of cooee in the English dictionary

The first definition of cooee in the dictionary is a call used to attract attention, esp a long loud high-pitched call on two notes used in the Australian bush. Other definition of cooee is to utter this call. Cooee is also (Australian & New Zealand, informal) calling distance (esp in the phrase within (a) cooee (of)).

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COOEE

PRESENT

Present
I cooee
you cooee
he/she/it cooees
we cooee
you cooee
they cooee
Present continuous
I am cooeeing
you are cooeeing
he/she/it is cooeeing
we are cooeeing
you are cooeeing
they are cooeeing
Present perfect
I have cooeed
you have cooeed
he/she/it has cooeed
we have cooeed
you have cooeed
they have cooeed
Present perfect continuous
I have been cooeeing
you have been cooeeing
he/she/it has been cooeeing
we have been cooeeing
you have been cooeeing
they have been cooeeing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I cooeed
you cooeed
he/she/it cooeed
we cooeed
you cooeed
they cooeed
Past continuous
I was cooeeing
you were cooeeing
he/she/it was cooeeing
we were cooeeing
you were cooeeing
they were cooeeing
Past perfect
I had cooeed
you had cooeed
he/she/it had cooeed
we had cooeed
you had cooeed
they had cooeed
Past perfect continuous
I had been cooeeing
you had been cooeeing
he/she/it had been cooeeing
we had been cooeeing
you had been cooeeing
they had been cooeeing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will cooee
you will cooee
he/she/it will cooee
we will cooee
you will cooee
they will cooee
Future continuous
I will be cooeeing
you will be cooeeing
he/she/it will be cooeeing
we will be cooeeing
you will be cooeeing
they will be cooeeing
Future perfect
I will have cooeed
you will have cooeed
he/she/it will have cooeed
we will have cooeed
you will have cooeed
they will have cooeed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been cooeeing
you will have been cooeeing
he/she/it will have been cooeeing
we will have been cooeeing
you will have been cooeeing
they will have been cooeeing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would cooee
you would cooee
he/she/it would cooee
we would cooee
you would cooee
they would cooee
Conditional continuous
I would be cooeeing
you would be cooeeing
he/she/it would be cooeeing
we would be cooeeing
you would be cooeeing
they would be cooeeing
Conditional perfect
I would have cooee
you would have cooee
he/she/it would have cooee
we would have cooee
you would have cooee
they would have cooee
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been cooeeing
you would have been cooeeing
he/she/it would have been cooeeing
we would have been cooeeing
you would have been cooeeing
they would have been cooeeing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you cooee
we let´s cooee
you cooee
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to cooee
Past participle
cooeed
Present Participle
cooeeing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COOEE


aalii
ɑːˈliːiː
Cassiopeiae
ˌkæsɪəˈpiːiː
cooey
ˈkuːiː
dui
ˈdjuːiː
Graeae
ˈɡriːiː
GUI
ˈɡuːiː
hokonui
həʊkəˈnuːiː
kanae
kɑːnɑːiː
Kauai
kɑːˈwɑːiː
korowai
kɒrɒwɑːiː
kowhaiwhai
kɒfɑːiːfɑːiː
ngai
əŋˈɡɑːiː
reremai
ˈrɛrɛmɑːiː
rouille
ˈruːiː
Salicaceae
ˌsælɪˈkeɪsiːiː
tracheae
trəˈkiːiː
wai
ˈwɑːiː
wharenui
fɑːrɛnuːiː
zoaeae
zəʊˈiːiː
zoeae
zəʊˈiːiː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COOEE

coo
cooch
Cooch Behar
cooer
cooey
coof
cooing
cooingly
cook
Cook Inlet
Cook Islands
cook shop
cook someone´s goose
Cook Strait
cook the books
cook up
cook-chill
cook-chill foods
cook-general
cook-off

WORDS THAT END LIKE COOEE

agree
as far as I can see
at the top of the tree
bee
coffee
committee
dee
degree
ee
employee
fee
feel free
for free
free
guarantee
lee
must-see
see
tee
Tennessee

Synonyms and antonyms of cooee in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cooee» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COOEE

Find out the translation of cooee to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cooee from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cooee» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cooee
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cooee
570 millions of speakers

English

cooee
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Cooee
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cooee
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Cooee
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cooee
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Cooee
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cooee
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cooee
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cooee
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cooee
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cooee
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cooee
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Cooee
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कूयी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cooee
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cooee
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cooee
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Cooee
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cooee
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Cooee
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kooeekooee
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Cooee
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cooee
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cooee

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COOEE»

The term «cooee» is normally little used and occupies the 113.269 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COOEE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cooee» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cooee» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cooee

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COOEE»

Discover the use of cooee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cooee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cooee
"Cooee's acerbic narrator, Isabel Weaving, is taking stock of her life, having escaped one unsatisfactory marriage, although not with her relationships with her children intact.
Vivienne Kelly, 2008
2
Cooee the Good Pony and Little Brown Dog:
When Brown Dog comes to live on the farm, every day is a happy day, and they have many fun times together. Read how a brave pony becomes best friends with a little pup in Cooee the Good Pony and Little Brown Dog.
Lynne Pickering
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Cooee: Australia in the Nineteenth Century
This wide-ranging survey of colonial life features items from the National Library of Australias collection of 19th-century drawings, watercolours and photographs which illustrates our forebears' fears and dreams, and how they lived, worked ...
Martin Terry, 2007
4
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
60, July 2003 cooee noun the call 'cooee' Australia, i83i • Laughter and gay calls echoed along the bank, and a coo-ee sounded from higher up.— Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 131, 1962 ▻ within cooee within calling distance of a ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
5
SPORT AUSTRALIAN: Kicking Goals
At the appointed time, McCarthy's son James overheard his father cry 'Cooee'. Holmes deduced: The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry .
Tony Ward, 2013
6
Beaches of the Tasmanian Coast and Islands
The three Cooee beaches (T 1081-1083) are located between the mouth of the Cam River at Camdale, and Cooee Point 3 km to the east. The beaches all face due north, with the old railway line and highway running along the rear of each.
Andrew Short, 2006
7
Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
When twothings are far apart, why do wesay they're 'not within cooee of each other'? ... And because 'cooee' works, asacall, over distance it became a reference to distance, as in the expression 'not within cooee', meaning not within hailing ...
Kel Richards, 2013
8
The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on ...
Male and female writing in COOEE COOEE (COrpus of Oz Early English) is a corpus of English in Australia spanning the years 1788–1900. It was collected by the author to form the basis of the doctoral dissertation From English in Australia to ...
Terttu Nevalainen, 2008
9
Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and ...
Carter examines the history of the "word-sound" "Cooee," a sound now understood as quintessentially (white) Australian. But its history has everything to do with claiming ownership of a sound, its appropriation, and its incorporation. European ...
Mark Michael Smith, 2007
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The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, ...
Cooee ! " Does a mother's fear speak out? Have the little ones not. come back ? Have they followed too long the wattle bloom, And left the faint bush track ? '* Cooee ! " There 's a dam near the winding creek, Are the children sleeping there ?

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COOEE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cooee is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Five places for an Auckland staycation
This two-storey, beautifully furnished home with decks to capture every mood of the sun can sleep up to eight within cooee of the beach. Just 10 ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
2
Peugeot 308 R HYbrid almost set for production
If a production version comes within cooee of the concept, it would also significantly trump the 270kW/465Nm and 0-100km/h in 4.3s of the ... «Cars Guide, Jun 15»
3
McCullum proof the way you do it counts
If the gong's inscription is ''For services to cricket,'' there's no man in the present game who is within cooee of Brendon McCullum. John Lapsley ... «Otago Daily Times, Jun 15»
4
Hey girls, how's this for a challenge: stop the self-loathing, smile and …
By the way, for research, I've just wrapped my own arm around my back, and discovered that while my hand cannot get within cooee of my belly ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jun 15»
5
Laucala Island's private submarine a unique perk for paying guests
When Elle Macpherson got married on Laucala in 2013, paparazzi couldn't get within cooee of the festivities so the gossip magazines had to ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jun 15»
6
Tristan Kimlin stomachs hottest chilli to become champion
It's the second chilli festival to be held at the PCYC site in Cooee Bay, on Matthew Flinders Dr. Hundreds of people strolled through the gates ... «Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, Jun 15»
7
Lleyton Hewitt will be out swinging in final Wimbledon
So, too, has any Australian within cooee of the All England Club over the past month, while Andy Murray offered the warmest of tributes as ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
8
Back to Belmore revives Dogs spiritual home
Sprinting away in front of a packed Belmore hill crowd against St George, Mannix didn't have a defender within cooee of him when he dived out ... «Fox Sports, Jun 15»
9
Expensive school photos haven't caught up with the real world
... years - the professionalism of the $40 photographer will extend to ensuring the knot of my son's tie is somewhere within cooee of his collar. «Brisbane Times, Jun 15»
10
Bill's beach walks can continue after Marcia repairs done
YEPPOON resident Bill Thurlow has been taking afternoon walks along Cooee Bay beach for as long as he can remember. But after Cyclone ... «Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, Jun 15»

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