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coota dark gray aquatic bird; a foolish person: He’s just an old coot.
Not to be confused with:cute – attractive in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute puppy; affectedly clever; precious: too old to be acting so unbearably cutecoot C0625800 (ko͞ot)n.1. Any of several waterbirds of the widely distributed genus Fulica, having dark-gray plumage, a black head and neck, and often a white bill.2. See scoter.3. Derogatory An eccentric or crotchety person, especially an old man.
[Middle English cote, from Middle Dutch kuut, koet, of unknown origin.]coot (kuːt) n1. (Animals) any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, esp F. atra of Europe and Asia, having lobed toes, dark plumage, and a white bill with a frontal shield: family Rallidae (rails, crakes, etc)2. a foolish person, esp an old man (often in the phrase old coot)[C14: probably from Low German; compare Dutch koet]coot (kut)
n. 1. any aquatic rail of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes. 2. any of various other swimming or diving birds, esp. the scoters. 3. Informal. a foolish or crotchety person, esp. one who is old. [1250–1300; Middle English cote; akin to Dutch koet] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  coot - slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducksrail - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mudFulica, genus Fulica - cootsAmerican coot, Fulica americana, marsh hen, mud hen, water hen - a coot found in North AmericaFulica atra, Old World coot - a coot found in Eurasiacovert - a flock of coots |
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bald as a cootTotally bald. My father had long hair as a teen, but now he's bald as a coot.See also: bald, cootbe as bald as a cootTo be totally bald. My father had long hair as a teen, but now he's as bald as a coot.See also: bald, coot*bald as a coot and *bald as a baby's backsidecompletely bald. (*Also: as ~.) If Tom's hair keeps receding like that, he'll be bald as a coot by the time he's thirty. Fred: Now, I'll admit my hair is thinning a little on the top, but—Jane: Thinning? You're not thinning, you're as bald as a baby's backside!See also: bald, cootas bald as a coot completely bald. The coot (Fulica atra) has a broad white shield extending up from the base of its bill. The history of the word bald is somewhat obscure, but analogies with other northern European languages suggest a connection with the idea of ‘having a white patch or streak’.See also: bald, coot(as) bald as a ˈcoot having no hair on your head at all: Why did you buy him a hairbrush? He’s as bald as a coot!A coot is a black bird with a white patch on its forehead that lives on or near water.See also: bald, cootbald as a coot/billiard ballVery bald indeed. The coot is a black waterbird whose white bill extends up to the forehead, making it appear to be bald. Indeed, this bird was already being called a balled cote in the thirteenth century. The later simile, to a billiard ball, has been less recorded, but since billiards was already popular in Shakespeare’s day it cannot be of very recent origin.See also: bald, ball, cootcrazy as a coot/loonLunatic behavior. The simile to the water bird dates from the sixteenth century, when John Skelton (Phyllyp Sparowe, 1529) wrote, “the mad coote, with a balde face to toote.” It is not known whether the craziness refers to the bird’s strange behavior in winter, when flocks of coots on a frozen pond sometimes fly wildly at one another, or to the senile behavior of the very old. (See also bald as a coot.) A related ornithological simile is crazy as a loon, probably derived from the weird loud cry of this bird. However, loony for “crazy” comes not from the bird but from lunatic, in turn related to the ancient belief that the phases of the moon (Latin luna) influence human behavior.See also: coot, crazy, loonold codger/coot/fogyUnflattering names for an elderly man. Old codger, dating from the mid-1700s, may imply that he is testy or crusty, whereas old coot, from the mid-1800s, indicates he is silly or ignorant. As for an old fogy, he may be hidebound in tradition. None of these is a desirable epithet, or, as Terrel Bell put it, “There’s only one thing worse than an old fogy, and that’s a young fogy” (commencement address at Longwood College, Virginia, June 17, 1985). A newer and decidedly vulgar synonym is old fart, dating from the first half of the 1900s. Phil Donahue said it of himself on his NBC television show in 1992: “I didn’t always look like an old fart like this.”See also: codger, coot, fogy, oldcoot
coot, common name for a migratory marsh bird related to rails and gallinules and found in North America and Europe. The American coot (Fulica americana), or mud hen, is slate gray with a white bill, black head and neck, and white wing edgings and tail patch. It has lobed toes and is a skillful swimmer and diver but takes flight awkwardly, pattering the water to gain impetus. It eats aquatic plants and insects. Gregarious except during breeding, the male broods eggs and chicks at night. The European species inhabits the northern regions; there are seven species in South America alone. Coots are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Gruiformes, family Rallidae.Coot (Fulica atra), or European coot, a bird of the family Rallidae of the order Gruiformes. The body length measures about 40 cm. There is a patch of white skin (shield) on the forehead. The coloration is grayish black. The bird has broadly lobed toes, enabling it to swim and dive well. It is distributed in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and Australia. In the USSR it nests everywhere south of 60°-62° N lat. and winters on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea and in Middle Asia. It lives along the shores of lakes, ponds, and sea inlets that are rich in aquatic vegetation. The nest is built near the water in thickets of reeds and rushes. Six to nine eggs, sometimes as many as 15, are laid per clutch, and both the male and female incubate them for 21-24 days. The coot feeds on the seeds and green parts of aquatic plants, on insects, and on mollusks. In certain localities, especially the wintering si’es, coots are hunted commercially. coot any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, esp F. atra of Europe and Asia, having lobed toes, dark plumage, and a white bill with a frontal shield: family Rallidae (rails, crakes, etc.) COOT
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coot
Words related to cootnoun slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducksRelated Words- rail
- Fulica
- genus Fulica
- American coot
- Fulica americana
- marsh hen
- mud hen
- water hen
- Fulica atra
- Old World coot
- covert
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