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coot
noun- a harmless simpleton, especially an old one; a fellow US, 1766
Probably from the behavioural characteristics of the bird. Current in south London according to Johnny Vaughan Tonight, 13 February 2002. - I hunched behind the wheel when I began thinking of the old coot who took the easy way out. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 144, 1951
- After Howard Blakely wandered away, the old coot sat there, scattering crumbs and listening to the pings from the shooting gallery across the way. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 33, 1954
- No one worried about the poor coot except Chuck. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 99, 1956
- Never mind the old coot down below, love. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 26, 1959
- Hey, Mum, there’s a silly coot in there who thinks it’s Christmas. — Bill Wannan, Folklore of the Australian Pub, p. 6, 1972
- “He’s the troublemaker,” Clurry went on. “This fair-headed coot.” — Max Fatchen, Chase through the Night, p. 84, 1976
- — Multicultural Management Program Fellows, Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989
- This coot was maybe sixty; tall and stooped, with a beaklike nose dropping in a straight line from his high liverspotted pate. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 168, 1990
- When Bobbie questioned Fin about the age of all the fun-loving fogies, coots, geezers, codgers, duffers and biddies she’d met in the saloon, he didn’t know how to tell her that the oldest fossil in the joint wasn’t fifteen years his senior. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 230, 1993
- I was never the brainiest coot, either at school or in the police force. — Rex Hunt, Tall Tales–and True, p. 108, 1994
- the vagina; a woman as a sex object; sex with a woman US
- — American Speech, p. 57, Spring-Summer 1975: “Razorback slang”
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