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Croon

Croon

(kroōn)
,
Verb.
I.
[OE.
croinen
, cf. D.
kreunen
to moan. √24.]
1.
To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.
2.
To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.
Here an old grandmother was
crooning
over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro.
Dickens.

Croon

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crooned
(kroōnd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Crooning
.]
1.
To sing in a low tone, as if to one’s self; to hum.
Hearing such stanzas
crooned
in her praise.
C. Bronté.
2.
To soothe by singing softly.
The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and
crooned
himself asleep.
Dickens.

Croon

,
Noun.
1.
A low, continued moan; a murmur.
2.
A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

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croon

croon

English

Verb

croon (third-person singular simple present croons, present participle crooning, simple past and past participle crooned)

  1. To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
    • Charlotte Brontë
      Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
  2. (transitive) To soothe by singing softly.
    • Charles Dickens
      The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
  3. (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

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Noun

croon (plural croons)

  1. A soft or sentimental hum or song.
    • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club:
      And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”

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