cooee
noun · verb · interjectionA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(Australia, informal, onomatopoeic)(Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 309, Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee. Cooees were not part of the code.
- 2.
(Australia, also, figuratively, informal)(Australia, informal, with "within", also figuratively) A short distance; hailing distance.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(Australia, informal, intransitive)To make such a call.
2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 310, I cooeed back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I cooeed again.
interjection
interjectioncooeycoo-ee
- 1.
(Australia, UK, informal)(informal, chiefly Australia, UK) Used to attract someone's attention.
Cooee! I'm over here!
2001, June E. Barker, First Platypus, Gaygar—The Little Mother Duck, in Helen F. McKay (editor), Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace Jones, June E. Barker, Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming, page 58, Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE, GAYGAR! COOEE, GAYGAR!" they would cry.
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Nguồn gốc từ
guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.