Cooeeing

/ˈkuːiɪŋ/ verb

Definition

Present participle of cooee; making cooee calls, or continuing to attract attention with the cooee sound.

Etymology

From cooee plus the -ing suffix, following standard English progressive verb formation rules.

Kelly Says

The spelling cooeeing with three e's in a row shows the collision between Aboriginal phonetics and English spelling rules—it looks awkward to English eyes but it's the logical result of adding -ing to a word that ends in -ee.

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