Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Substantiivi
- (Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
- (Australia, informal, with "within", also figuratively) A short distance; hailing distance.
Verbi
- (intransitive, Australia, informal) To make such a call.
Huudahdus
- (informal, chiefly Australia, UK) Used to attract someone's attention.
Esimerkit
- I call out, “Coo-ee” with long Coo and short ee like whip-bird call. Everybody in my mob know my cooee. Any one of my mob hear that, they give me cooee back.
- I listen.
- No cooee come back.
- Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee. Cooees were not part of the code.
- That is not within cooee of 10 per cent; it is much closer to six per cent.
- We were carless, in the dark, and no one to help within cooee.
- ‘Look out for snakes,’ said Long Charlie, flourishing his lantern. ‘And don′t all of us be coo-eeing all the time, or when the little chap sings out we shan't be able to hear him.’
- Slipping out of the tail of the dray, I cooeed as loud as I could which was answered.
- I cooeed back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I cooeed again.
- Cooee! I'm over here!
- Then, raising her hands to her lips she utters a long, loud, piercing " Cooee ! "
- " Coo — ee ! " comes back over the black waters.
- Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE, GAYGAR! COOEE, GAYGAR!" they would cry.
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