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Coot   /kut/   Listen
noun
Coot  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is Fulica atra (see under bald); the American is Fulica Americana.
(b)
The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (OEdemia are called coots. See Scoter. "As simple as a coot."
2.
A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot. (Colloq.)





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"Coot" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'E's sich a coot for takin' sides, as I sez to Doreen. Sez she, "'Ow can 'e, by 'imself ?" Wotever that may mean. My wife sez little things sometimes that nearly git me riled. I knoo she meant more than she said be that soft ...
— Digger Smith • C. J. Dennis
... South following these old honkers came the snow geese, the Wilson geese, and all the other little geese (we ignorantly called all of them "brants"), with their wild flutings like the high notes of clarinets—and the ponds became speckled with teal and coot. ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick
... great, The stronger basking in the genial sun. Observe the myriad fishes of the seas— The mammoths and the minnows of the deep. Behold the eagle and the little wren, The condor on his cliff, the pigeon-hawk, The teal, the coot, the broad-winged albatross. Turn to the beasts in forest and in field— The lion, the lynx, the mammoth and the mouse, The sheep, the goat, the bullock and the horse, The fierce gorillas and the chattering apes— Progenitors and prototypes of man. Not only differences ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... now appeared on the scene. Between them and the ruddy ducks there seemed to be a feud of more or less intensity, each being on the offensive or the defensive as the exigencies of naval warfare demanded. Once I was moved to laughter as a coot made a fierce dash toward one of the ducks, and was almost upon her, and I thought she was destined to receive a severe trouncing, when she suddenly dodged her pursuer by diving. He just as suddenly gave up the chase, looking as if it were a ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser
... The wanton coot the water skims, Amang the reeds the ducklings cry, The stately swan majestic swims, And ev'ry thing is blest but I. And ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns


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