/kɹuːn/, /kɹun/, /krøn/
- transitiveTo hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song) in a low, mellow voice.
“He was crooning a song.”
“Tam ſkelpit on thro' dub and mire, / Deſpiſing vvind, and rain, and fire; / VVhiles holding faſt his gude blue bonnet; / VVhiles crooning o'er ſome auld Scots ſonnet; […]”
“So they went, toiling up [the staircase]; she singing all the way, and Paul sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment.”
- transitiveTo soothe (a person or an animal) by singing softly.
“[I]n his ill-remembered prayer, and in the fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep, there breathed as true a spirit as ever studied homily expressed, or old cathedr”
““But, you know, crooners gonna croon.””
- intransitiveTo hum or sing, or to speak, softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing a popular song in a low, mellow voice.
“She was crooning, but I couldn’t make out what the song was.”
“But hark! the robin takes up the strain. […] Thou art a type of the true poet, even of him who "crooneth to himsel" amid poverty, and want, and toil. Other birds require the sunshine and the flower to”
“"You, my sweet boy," she croons. "How much you still owe me?" […] "Be happy I ain't charging interest like how the man and all his bug-a-boos do," she croons on. "Just gimme a twenty. You got a dub or”
- Northern-England, Scotland, intransitiveTo lament, to moan.
- Northern-England, Scotland, intransitiveTo make a continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; to bellow, to low.
“Novv Clinkumbell, vvi' rattlin tovv, / Begins to jovv an' croon; […]”
“Even the dull cattle crooned and gazed, / And murmured and looked with anxious pain / For something the mystery to explain.”
“'Thou hear'st that lordly Bull of mine, / Neighbour,' quoth Brunskill then; / 'How loudly to the hills he crunes, / That crune to him again.[']”
- Northern-England, Scotland, intransitiveOf a large bell: to make a low-pitched sound.
- A soft, low-pitched sound; specifically, a soft or sentimental hum, song, or tune.
“O, a’ ye Bards on bonie Doon! / An’ vvha on Ayr your chanters tune! / Come, join the melancholious croon / O’ Robin’s reed! / His heart vvill never get aboon! / His Mailie’s dead!”
“Bitterly she cried as she thought over the old hag's croon:— / "Quick joy, long pain, / You will take your gift again."”
“From away out in the darkness came a haunting croon from the lubras and children.”
- Northern-England, ScotlandA continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; a bellow.
“Amang the brachens, on the brae, / Betvveen her an' the moon, / The Deil, or elſe an outler Quey, / Gat up an' gae a croon: […]”
“The bittern mounts the morning air; / And rings the sky with quavering croon; […]”
- Northern-England, ScotlandThe low-pitched sound of a large bell.
Formscroons(present, singular, third-person) · crooning(participle, present) · crooned(participle, past) · crooned(past) · croon(infinitive) · croon(first-person, present, singular) · crooned(first-person, past, singular) · croon(present, second-person, singular) · croonest(archaic, present, second-person, singular) · crooned(past, second-person, singular) · croonedst(archaic, past, second-person, singular) · crooneth(archaic, present, singular, third-person) · crooned(past, singular, third-person) · croon(plural, present) · crooned(past, plural) · croon(present, subjunctive) · crooned(past, subjunctive) · croon(imperative, present) · -(imperative, past) · croons(plural)