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cooter
[ koo-ter ]
noun
- Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cooter1
1820–30; said to be < Bambara, Malinke kuta turtle (with related forms in other Niger-Congo languages); compare coot to copulate (of sea turtles), first attested in the Caribbean in 1667
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Example Sentences
It was a bit of payback by Ben Jones, who played Cooter in The Dukes of Hazzard and lost a House race to Gingrich.
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My daughter tells me that Bowler played Cooter, the werewolf in True Blood.
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Democrats have only the dude who played “Cooter” on The Dukes of Hazard to crow about.
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A “cooter” is a box-tortoise, and the noun is turned into a verb with an ease characteristic of the mountaineers.
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The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boatman he is.
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Stop it I say—would you kill a feller just for a doggoned old cooter?
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