different between gurgle vs coo

English

Etymology

Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguli? (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.??l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??l

Verb

gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)

1. To flow with a bubbling sound.

   The bath water gurgled down the drain.

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.

2. To make such a sound.

   The baby gurgled with delight.

Translations

Noun

gurgle (plural gurgles)

1. A gurgling sound.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

Translations

Anagrams

• glurge, lugger

German

Verb

gurgle

1. inflection of gurgeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ko?o
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ku?/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ku/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: coup

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren.

Noun

coo (plural coos)

1. The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
2. (by extension) An expression of pleasure made by a person.

Translations

Verb

coo (third-person singular simple present coos, present participle cooing, simple past and past participle cooed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
2. (intransitive) To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of cool; compare foo.

Adjective

coo (comparative more coo, superlative most coo)

1. (slang) Cool.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Interjection

coo

1. An expression of approval, fright, surprise, etc. [from early 20th c.]

References

Anagrams

• OCO, OOC

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cú (“dog, hound”), from Primitive Irish ???? (cuna, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *k?, from Proto-Indo-European *?w? (“dog”).

Noun

coo m (genitive singular coo, plural coyin)

1. dog

   Synonym: moddey

2. hound
3. cur
4. wolf dog

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• côo (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o.u

Verb

coo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of coar

San Juan Colorado Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *kòò?.

Noun

còò

1. snake
2. worm

Derived terms

References

• Stark Campbell, Sara; et al. (1986) Diccionario mixteco de San Juan Colorado (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 29)?^[5] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 9

Scots

Alternative forms

• coe, cou

Etymology

From Old English c?, from Proto-West Germanic *k?, from Proto-Germanic *k?z.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?/

Noun

coo (plural kye or coos)

1. cow

Usage notes

The regular collective plural form is kye (from Old English); the weak plural coos is used only after numerals.