See Also: cooee(dictionary)

cooee (iou)



cooee noun, interjection, & verb. Chiefly Austral. & NZ. Also cooey. L18.
[Imit. of a signal used by Aborigines and copied by settlers.]
A. noun & interjection. (A call or cry) used as a signal to draw attention to the caller. L18.
within a cooee (of), within cooee (of) colloq. within hailing distance (of), within easy reach (of), near (to).
b. verb intrans. Pa. t. & pple cooeed. Utter this call. E19.