Lexic.us

2. Noun. (Australia informal with "within" also figuratively) A short distance; hailing distance. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive Australia informal) To make such a call. ¹

4. Interjection. (informal chiefly Australia) (non-gloss definition Used to attract someone's attention.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cooee

1. to cry out shrilly [v COOEED, COOEEING, COOEES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooee

Literary usage of Cooee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"TP cooee IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR. DOUGLAS JERROLD. ... cooee, — I cannot rest satisfied this mom- ing without writing to congratulate you on your ..."

2. Challenging Horizons: Qantas 1939-1954 by John Gunn (1987)
"These were VH- ABA Carpentaria and VH-ABF cooee; both were operating on the Horseshoe Route ... cooee is shown on the slipway at Singapore carrying the red, ..."

3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"WATERBURY, PETER cooee. Of Connecticut. Was a Cornet of Cavalry in Arnold's American Legion. In 1783 he settled at St. John, New Brunswick, and received ..."

4. Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory by Yale Psychological Laboratory, Edward Wheeler Scripture (1893)
"RESEARCHES ON MEMORY FOR ARM-MOVEMENTS. BY EW SCRIPTURE, WC cooee AND CM ... cooee in 1896-97 on four college students as subjects, the distances 100"cm, ..."

5. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"8 cooee. imposes a penalty if " any Commissioner shall act before he shall have made the said declaration, or if any person, not being duly qualified, ..."

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