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单词 bald-coot
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bald-cootn.

Forms:

α. see bald adj. and coot n.1

β. 1700s– baldicoot, 1800s– baldiecoot, 1900s– baldycoot.

Etymology: < bald adj. + coot n.1The β. forms are probably prosodically or metrically motivated. Perhaps compare also baldy n.
Popular name for the Coot ( Fulica atra), from its pure white wide frontal plate, destitute of feathers. Used figuratively and contemptuously as = bald-head n. Cf. coot n.1 2.
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica > fulica atra (coot)
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a1300 W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 165 Une blarye (glossed) a balled cote.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta i. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iiiii4v/2 Unfledge 'em of their..perriwigs, And they appeare like bald cootes, in the nest.
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Bald-coot.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV lxxxiii. 156 The bald-coot bully Alexander.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. iv. 176 Your princesses, that..demean themselves to hob and nob with these black baldicoots [i.e. monks with shaven crowns]!
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