[f. COO v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb COO.
1. lit.; see COO v. 1.
1695. Blackmore, Pr. Arth., I. 701. The Dove Ceases her Cooing.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., v. (1858), 257. The … doves … still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens.
2. transf.; see COO v. 2, 3.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VIII. 1272. Let not the Cooings of the World allure thee.
1821. Byron, Juan, III. viii. No one cares for matrimonial cooings.
1857. Trollope, Three Clerks, xx. You may as well give over your billing and cooing.
