| 单词 | as lousy as a coot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas lousy as a coot Chiefly English regional. as lousy as a coot: heavily infested with lice; filthy, dirty. ΚΠ a1864 J. Clare in E. Robinson & R. Fitter John Clare's Birds (1982) 89 These birds are subject to lice which is so common to them that it has grown into a saying that any thing filthy is ‘as lousey as a coot’. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. at Coot As lousy as a coot. 1915 Zoologist 19 157 In Kent it is a common expression, ‘As lousy as a Coot!’ I recently saw four of these birds shot, and in every case vermin, in appearance like small lice, were found on the dead birds. 1959 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 54/1 He hasn't had a wash for months and I'll bet he's as lousy as a coot. a2007 F. Britt in C. Simmons Grampy's War (2009) 175 We had been in and out of Italian farms; sleeping in barns, we were as lousy as coots. < as lemmas |
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