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Is cooee a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cooee is a Scrabble US word. The word cooee is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is cooee a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cooee is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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Is cooee a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word cooee is a Words With Friends word. The word cooee is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

COOEE,

3-letter words (3 found)

CEE,COO,ECO,

2-letter words (3 found)

EE,OE,OO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from cooee according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cooee

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Definitions and meaning of cooee

cooee

Alternative forms

  • cooey
  • coo-ee

Etymology

From Dharug guuu-wi adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ko͞o'(w)ē, IPA(key): /ˈkuːʷiː/
  • In making the call, the first syllable may be quite elongated; the second is relatively short.
  • Rhymes: -uːiː

Noun

cooee (plural cooees)

  1. (Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
    • 2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 309,
      Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee. Cooees were not part of the code.
  2. (Australia, informal, with "within", also figuratively) A short distance; hailing distance.

Translations

Verb

cooee (third-person singular simple present cooees, present participle cooeeing, simple past and past participle cooeed)

  1. (intransitive, Australia, informal) To make such a call.
    • 2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 310,
      I cooeed back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I cooeed again.

Translations

Interjection

cooee

  1. (informal, chiefly Australia, UK) Used to attract someone's attention.
    Cooee! I'm over here!
    • 2001, June E. Barker, First Platypus, Gaygar—The Little Mother Duck, in Helen F. McKay (editor), Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace Jones, June E. Barker, Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming, page 58,
      Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE, GAYGAR! COOEE, GAYGAR!" they would cry.

Synonyms

  • ahoy! (nautical), hey!, oi! (impolite), yoohoo!; see also Thesaurus:hey

References


Source: wiktionary.org