ROOCOOCOO VERB of a pigeon or a dove: to coo ...1922 rare ETYMOLOGY imitative of the bird's call FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1922 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Two carfuls of tourists passed slowly, their women sitting fore, gripping frankly the handrests. Pale faces. Men’s arms frankly round their stunted forms. They looked from Trinity to the blind columned porch of the bank of Ireland where pigeons roocoocooed..." From: Ulysses - James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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