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Cooee   Listen
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Cooee, Cooey  n.  (Written also cooie)  A peculiar cry uttered by the Australian aborigines as a call to attract attention, and also in common use among the Australian colonists. In the actual call the first syllable is much prolonged and the second ends in a shrill, staccato e. To represent the sound itself the spelling cooee is generally used.
Within cooey, within earshot.






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"Cooee" Quotes from Famous Books



... delirious. Greg wasn't raving exactly, but it was almost worse, because his voice was so small and different from his own dear usual one. When I told him I couldn't get Simpson I tried to make my voice sound soft and cooey like Mother's when she's sorry, but it went up into a queer squeak instead, and I couldn't finish somehow. Greg kept saying, "Simpson;—please—" and ...
— Us and the Bottleman • Edith Ballinger Price

... Certain portions of the territory were set apart for the Church, and handed over to Bishop Montgomery. 'Of all the fair territory which once was his, Donald Balagh had not now as much as would afford him a last resting-place near the sculptured tomb of Cooey-na-gall. O'Cahan got no sympathy, and he deserved none; for he might have foreseen that the Government to which he sold himself would cast him off as an outworn tool, when he could no longer subserve their wicked purposes.'[1] 'Thus were ...
— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin



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