OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 57635

bill and coo

Meanings (ES + gloss)
hacer arrumacos
To exchange loving and affectionate behaviour, such as caresses and kisses.
"It's not as if you two were young people, and wanted to be billing and cooing," Lady Ball had said to her the same evening. Miss Mackenzie, as she thought of this, was not so sure…
To be brave, handsome, twenty-two; / With nothing else on earth to do, / But all day long to bill and coo; / It were a pleasant calling.
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