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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Australia, informal, onomatopoeia A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
- n. Australia, informal A short distance; hailing distance.
- v. intransitive, Australia, informal To make such a call.
- interj. informal Used to attract someone's attention.
Etymologies
- From Dharug guuu-wi adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you have a Borders bookshop within cooee of you (as I do, yay) you can donate good quality second-hand books to them.”
“If you were ever within cooee of Zucker, I bet you did”
“If you’re within cooee of the S. E, I’d be delighted to shout you a brew, Mayhem!”
“The warning had scarcely been given by the leader, whose two companions reloaded their fire-arms, when they heard a shrill cry of a peculiar kind, which is in the Colony called a cooee, and which is chiefly used by parties in the bush to denote their positions or make known their desire of help, guidance, etc. The bushrangers halted and listened attentively; the cry was two or three times repeated, apparently by the same voice.”
“Presently there sounded upon the morning air the clear "cooee" of the range, particularly well known to every cowboy who had worked at Circle”
The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave
“And presently after I heard from afar his high, melancholy "cooee," and the crack of his thong in the afternoon air as he hastened out to his charges.”
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
“Anxious to escape thoughts so little comprehended, King hurried on, and essayed a feeble 'cooee' when a few yards from the sleeper.”
“Australian "cooee," following it up with a shrill piercing note from a little silver whistle; but the only response was the cry of an _ara_, one of the great scarlet and blue long-tailed macaws, whose harsh shriek came softened from the distance.”
“cooee" of the returning warriors; and then caught the bark of the fox, that told them that Paul and his posse had returned.”
“Simply put, I won't let a simple doctor within cooee of me with a needle, but I can let Pathologists and anesthetists do it - if stretched, a registered nurse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cooee’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Words with Four Consecutive Vowels
This oughta be a short list, eh?
queue, queuing, homoiousian, miaou, onomatopoeia, hawaiian, iroquoian, kauai, kilauea, longueuil, louie, montesquieu and 58 more...
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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Stralya
I love a sunburnt country
Some words will just always conjure images of my country for me.snag, footy, holden, bondi, bewdy, fair dinkum, strewth, minda, bruce, mate, dinky di, true blue and 47 more...
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Strewth Mate, or, The Antipodean Anhang
Aussie stuff that doesn't really belong in my other lists.
The name is a discreet tribute to Charles Cudworth and his essay: "Ye Olde Spuriosity Shoppe, or, Put it in the Anhang", whi...wagga wagga, woy woy, walla walla, wee waa, wollongong, cooee, lairy, australele, kafoops, bewdiful, nature strip, yonks and 42 more...
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oh-eee-oh-eee-oh
words with oe that aren't:
plurals (tomatoes)
tenses (vetoed)
or compound latin thingies (electroencephalograph)amoeba, subpoena, throe, cooee, phoebe, goethe, oeuvre, pekoe, loess, sloe, canoe, phooey and 20 more...
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Rem'brance
Keepin' track.
aporia, jean-claude gosh ..., anaptyxis, kelemenopy, gnomon, cooee, simpatico, fakelore, acapnotic, tyro, dizzard, eccedentesiast
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Australian Derivation ... or, you kno...
Words I heard there. Or from Australians.
didjeridoo, budgerigar, kangaroo, wombat, kookaburra, echidna, koala, dreamtime, matilda, waltzing matilda, billabong, coolibah and 44 more...
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Vowel Rich
Scrabble List: vowel dumps
aeon, aero, agee, agio, ague, aide, akee, alee, alae, aloe, amia, amie and 67 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear I forgot all about cooee. Oh, I'm going to use this a lot. :) Apr 10, 2008
frindley Being "within cooee" of something – being within calling distance, close. Apr 10, 2008