[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That coos.
1665. Howard & Dryden, Ind. Queen, III. i. That murm’ring Noise that cooing Doves Use.
1832. Tennyson, Miller’s Dau., vi. I often heard the cooing dove In firry woodlands mourn alone.
Hence Cooingly adv.
1818. Keats, Endymion, I. 248. Turtles Passion their voices cooingly ’mong myrtles.
1863. Cornh. Mag., VII. 735. Her mother kissed her cooingly as she would have kissed a baby.
