What is "cooings"

Usage examples of "cooings".

And so, heavily back across the dewy fields, under the larks' songs, the cooings of pigeons, the hum of wings, and all the unconscious rhythm of ageless Nature.

They slowly quieted down, from chatters to twitters to cooings, and at last were silent, two tiny tuffets of terror.

The summer day was full of murmurings of bees and flies, cooings of blissful pigeons, the soft swish and stir of leaves, and the scent of lime blossom under a sky so blue, with few white clouds slow, and calm, and full.

And upon several occasions he had been baffled by the cooings and the little shrieks of feminine appreciation and approval in picture houses when on the screen Dale Torrent roughly slapped a lovely young thing's cheek, or punched her in the jaw, or pushed her face into half a watermelon.

After she had endured her fittings and Miss Strood's cooings as to how sweetly pretty she looked, which brought her an acid answer from Cass- "You mean my clothes look sweetly pretty.

Leaning heavily against Linna's leg, Sam stands patiently through it, like a tired but polite child through the cooings of adults.

A great many of the girl's admirers had contrived to have thorns in their paws, arthritis in their tails, or burrs in their furplus one absolutely legitimate broken wingand all of these required strokings and pickings and bindings and cooings from their gentle darling.

I have to break in over their hot cooings to tell them an unappetizing truth: I am not Mark Asprey.