Cooee
Pronunciation: /kuːi/
Cooee (noun)
- a loud call used in Australia to attract attention or find someone
Examples
- The cooee echoed through the forest.
- We heard a distant cooee from the hill.
Common collocations: distant cooee, loud cooee, cooee loudly, cooee across
Cooee (verb)
- to shout loudly to get someone's attention, often used in the countryside
Examples
- He cooeed to get their attention.
- They cooeed across the valley.