cooee
(Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
Origin: , adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(Australia, informal, with "within", also, _, figuratively) A short distance; hailing distance.
I call out, “Coo-ee” with long Coo and short ee like whip-bird call. Everybody in my mob know my cooee. Any one of my mob hear that, they give me cooee back.I listen.No cooee come back.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(intransitive, Australia, informal) To make such a call.
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