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▪ I. croon, v. Chiefly Sc.|kruːn|
Forms: 5–9 Sc. croyn, (5–7 croyne, 9 croin), 6 Sc. cruin, 6–9 crune, 8– croon.
[Originally only northern, chiefly Sc. (krøn, krʏn), whence in 19th c. Eng. mainly since Burns. It corresponds to Du. kreunen to groan, whimper, MDu. krônen to lament, mourn loudly, groan, MLG. kronen to growl, grumble, scold, EFris. krȫnen to cause to weep; cf. also OHG. chrônnan(:—-njan), chrônan, MLG. kroenen to chatter, prattle, babble, and chrôn, crôn adj. talkative, chattering, noisy. There is no trace of the word in OE., and it appears to be one of the LG. words that came into Sc. early in the ME. period: its form is that of a word in ME. ō. (In Towneley Myst., as in MSc., oy = ō.)]
1. intr. To utter a continued, loud, deep sound; to bellow as a bull, to roar, low; to boom as a bell. Sc. or north. dial.
1513Douglas æneis vi. iv. 40 The ground begouth to rummys, croyn, and ring, Vndir thair feit [sub pedibus mugire solum]. 1588[see crooning ppl. a.]. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Réer, In tearmes of hunting we say, that the red Deere bells, and the fallow troytes or croynes. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 140 To Crune, mugire. 1787Burns Holy Fair xxvi, Now Clinkumbell, wi' rattlin tow, Begins to jow an' croon. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake ii. Wks. (1876) 35 Even the dull cattle crooned and gazed. 1828Southey Brough Bells Poems VI. 227 That lordly Bull of mine..How loudly to the hills he crunes, That crune to him again.
2. a. To utter a low murmuring sound; to sing (or speak) in a low murmuring tone; to hum softly. spec. to sing popular sentimental songs in a low, smooth voice, esp. into a closely-held microphone (see quot.1959 s.v. crooning below).
(The earlier quots. may have been ironical or humorous uses of sense 1.)
c1460Towneley Myst. 116 Primus P. For to syng..I can. Sec. P. Let se how ye croyne. Can ye bark at the mone? 1578Gude & Godlie Ballates (1868) 179 The Sisters gray befoir this day, Did crune within thair cloister. a1818Macneil Poems (1844) 56 Whan, crooning quietly by himsel', He framed the lay. 1832Motherwell Jeanie Morrison vii, To wander by this green burnside, And hear its waters croon. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xix. 571, I hear a mother crooning to her baby. 1920Catal. Victor Records, Standard Songs. ‘Croon, Croon, Underneat' de Moon’ (Clutsam). 1931H. Arlen (title of song in the musical production You Said It) Learn to croon. 1933Punch 2 Aug. 122/1 Bing Crosby the crooner..croons to his feminine class and is crooned to in reply. 1940War Illustr. 5 Jan. p. ii/2, I used to sup while Roy Fox's ‘boys’ played joyously with Les Allen ‘crooning’.
b. To make murmuring lament or moan. Sc. or north. dial.
1823Galt Entail I. ii. 11 Frae the time o' the sore news, she croynt awa, and her life gied out like the snuff o' a can'le. 1830― Lawrie T. i. ii. 6 Croining and dwining, peaking and pining, at the fire-side. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Croon, to lament, wail.
3. trans. To sing (a song, tune, etc.) in a low murmuring undertone; to hum. spec. to sing (a song, etc.) in a low, smooth voice (cf. crool n.).
1790Burns Tam O' Shanter 84 Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet. 1848Dickens Dombey (C.D. ed.) 60 Paul sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment. 1872Holland Marb. Proph. 60 Over the cradle the mother hung Softly crooning a slumber song. 1915C. Lean (title of song in the musical production The Blue Paradise) The tune they croon in the U.S.A. 1925H. D. Kerr (title of song) Croon a little lullaby. 1931Durante & Kefoed Night Clubs 227 His band stressed the soft notes, and Rudy [Vallée] crooned his way right into the heart of the nation. 1932Amer. Speech VII. 250 Bing Crosby plaintively croons that he has ‘Found a Million Dollar Baby in the Five and Ten Cent Store’. 1933Fortune Aug. 47/2 Their use of ‘jazz’ includes both Duke Ellington's Afric brass and Rudy Vallée crooning I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All?
Hence ˈcrooning vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1588A. Hume Hymns, Triumph of the Lord 234 (Bannatyne Club) 41 Be cruining Bulls of heigh and haughtie minde. 1828Southey Brough Bells, That cruning of the kine. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xviii, The cocks and hens..made only crooning subdued noises. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xix. 270 As soft and musical as the crooning of a wood-pigeon. 1923B. James (title of song) Carolina Mammy. A real Southern mammy song—the crooning kind. 1927Melody Maker Aug. 784/3 ‘Muddy Water’ has a feature in a sweet crooning vocal introduction. 1929Ibid. Dec. 1139/3 His crooning style of singing. 1931Musical Courier (N.Y.) in Oxf. Compan. Mus. (1938) 1018/2 No jazz or cheap crooning stuff had a place in her repertoire. 1932Literary Digest 30 Jan. 23/2 ‘You can't help thinking badly of any man who would degrade himself whining in that way..’ he said of crooning. 1935Wodehouse Blandings Castle v. 116 Everybody knows what Crooning Tenors are... They sit at the piano and gaze into a girl's eyes and sing in a voice that sounds like gas escaping from a pipe about Love and the Moonlight and You. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XII. 570/2 In that type of vocal performance known as ‘crooning’ the lower range of the voice is chiefly used, and that more in the manner of conversation than of singing, though falsetto notes are often introduced. There is a noticeable gliding or sliding from one pitch to another and the intonation is often deliberately indefinite... Characteristic also is a certain oscillation or catch in the voice as it comes to rest momentarily upon a sustained sound.
▪ II. croon, n. Chiefly Sc.|kruːn|
Also 6 crone, 8–9 crune.
[f. croon v.]
1. A loud, deep sound, such as the bellow of a bull or the boom of a large bell. Sc. or north. dial.
1513Douglas æneis xii. xii. 56 Lyke as twa bustuus bullis..Ruschand togiddir with cronys and feirfull granis. 1785Burns Halloween xxvi, The Deil, or else an outler Quey, Gat up an' gae a croon. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 204 The bittern mounts the morning air, And rings the sky with quavering croon. 1858M. Porteous Souter Johnny 14 The bell's last croon.
2. A low murmuring or humming sound, as of a tune hummed in an undertone.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. ii, She [a witch] can o'ercast the night, and cloud the moon, And mak the deils obedient to her crune. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 82 The cushat's croon. 1865Kingsley Herew. xii, She thought over the old hag's croon. |
