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cooing

[koo-ing] / ˈku ɪŋ /
VERB
cry softly
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Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far more effusively than they do for their daily adult nemeses.

From The Wall Street Journal

“They do know when someone someone’s ill, right?” he said to no one before scratching Penny’s tummy and cooing, “You know I’m ill, right? I’m ill!”

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.

From Salon

Otherwise, Anderson holds her own, cooing her one-liners with the kittenish candor of Marilyn Monroe.

From Los Angeles Times

But Gadot gets the best number in a tepid batch, a villain’s anthem that welds together a half-dozen sneering, cooing, minor-key tempo shifts.

From Los Angeles Times