Expression: Blowing a kiss

[Alvira]

Hello everybody,

When a mother purses her lips and suddenly releases them making a sound like "puch puch" to a crying baby (sort of blowing a kiss), could you tell me what the action is called? exactly the same thing we do to angry dogs and when calling pet cats.

The mother was -------------- to the crying baby.

Waiting for a helpful answer,

Alvira

[Conchita]

I think you could say:

The mother was smacking her lips at the crying baby.

[Alan]

Hi Alvira,

The nearest I can think of to what you are asking is the expression bill and coo.

Alan
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[Yankee]

[Spencer]

Hey All,
That's funny!
You really don't have a word for that?
We call that "cupp" (tzoup)
But Hungarian cats would never listen to that sound.
You got to say: C C C (tz tz tz) if you want a cat to pay attention.
There's an even funnier thing:
If you give a kiss on lips, it's called "cs?k" (chok with long o)
but on the cheek, it's called "puszi" (Don't try to say it aloud)
I think you understand now how strange can a long-distant call be from Canada to Hungary for an ear-witness, especially when you hanging up, and say:
I gotta go now, take care, puszi-puszi
Spencer