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within a cooee of someone Definition


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cooee
exclamation
    1. A usually high-pitched call used to attract attention.
verb
    intr
    cooeed, cooeeing
    1. To make this call.
Idiom: within a cooee of someone or something
    (ustral, NZ)
    To be within calling distance of them.
Etymology: 19c: from a signal originally used by the Aborigines which was later adopted by the colonists.



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