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the soft sound a pigeon makes and the hardest job in the company
means To make the soft, low, murmuring sound of a pigeon or dove, or to speak in a similarly gentle, affectionate murmur.
from "Coo" is imitative — an echoic word, meaning it was born straight from the sound itself, the throaty murmur of doves and pigeons rendered into English as best the human throat could manage. It first appears as a bird-noise word in the 1600s, then drifted naturally toward describing people who murmur tenderly, especially over babies or sweethearts. Its cousins are the whole family of echoic creature-sounds — "caw," "cuckoo," "moo" — words humans built by simply trying to say what they heard.
- two jobs
- a bird's gentle call, a boardroom's second-in-command
- dove dialect
- pigeons coo to flirt, soothe, and claim turf
- chief operator
- runs daily operations while the CEO faces outward
- baby talk
- infants coo before they ever form words
- throat work
- birds produce coos without any vocal cords
pigeon coo — the soft murmuring sound made by pigeons and doves, used for mating and territorial displays
mourning dove coo — distinctive 'ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo' call of zenaida macroura, heard across north america