cootn.¹

Brit.

/kuːt/, U.S.

/kut/

Forms: Middle English–1600s cote, coote, (Middle English cute, cuytt, 1500s–1600s cout(e), 1600s– coot.

Etymology: Middle English cote, coote, corresponding to Dutch koet (recorded c1600); a Low German word, the earlier history of which is unknown. The long o of Middle English cōte, evidenced also by the Dutch form, which implies Middle Dutch *cōte, coete, makes impossible the conjecture that the word is connected with Welsh cwt short, which is on other grounds inadmissible. Prof. Newton thinks that there is a connection between coot and scoot or scout, another name of the guillemot, and allied sea-fowl; but the early history of the latter is obscure.

1. A name originally given vaguely or generically to various swimming and diving birds. In many cases it seems to have been applied to the Guillemot ( Uria troile), the Zee-koet or Sea-coot of the Dutch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > member of genus Uria (guillemot)

coot1382

murre1578

scout1596

guillem1603

willock1606

kiddaw1674

sea-hen1676

guillemot1678

loom1694

lavy1698

foolish guillemot1776

willy1780

turr1794

tinkershere1799

strany1804

spratter1863

bacalao-bird1865

tinker1880

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xi. 16 An ostriche, and a nyȝt crowe, and a coote, and an hawke.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxvi. 429 The Cote highte Mergulus and hath that name of ofte doppynge and plungynge.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxvi. 429 It tokenyth moost certaynly full stronge tempeste in the see yf Cotes fle cryenge to the clyffes.

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 38 One of the birds that frequent this rock [Buchan Ness] has..its body not larger than a duck's, and yet lays eggs as large as those of a goose. This bird is by the inhabitants named a Coot. That which is called Coot in England is here a Cooter. [This is some error: no such name is known.]

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Guillemot..Quet (Aberdeen). [Cf. Queit (Aberd.) = Coot in Jamieson.]

a. Afterwards restricted in literary use to the Bald Coot ( Fulica atra, family Rallidæ), Meer-koet of the Dutch, a web-footed bird inhabiting the margins of lakes and still rivers, having the base of the bill extended so as to form a broad white plate on the forehead (whence the epithet bald); in U.S. applied to the allied F. Americana; and generically extended to all the species of Fulica.

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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica > fulica atra (coot)

bald-coota1300

water crowa1398

cootc1440

bell-kitea1525

devil1580

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica

coot1891

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica > fulica americana (American coot)

water hen1704

Blue Peter1709

flusterer1709

coot1891

a1300 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 165 Une blarye, a balled cote.]

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 95 Coote, byrde [MS. K, cote brydde], mergus, fullica.

1483 Cath. Angl. 87 A Cute [MS. A, Cuytt], fulica, mergus.

1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b A Couert of cootis.

a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.iii The doterell that folyshe pek And also the mad coote with a balde face to toote.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Foulque, a bird called a Coute.

1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. F 2 The Braine-bald Coot.

1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 149 Black Flusterers... Some call these the great bald Coot.

a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 154 Where coots in rushy dingles hide.

1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 59 Upwards of one hundred and thirty American birds have been enumerated..[including] the bald coot.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 102 I come from haunts of coot and hern.

1891 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 12 Mar. 4/1 Twelve redheads, one bald pate and a coot were secured during the day.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 16/1 Bald-Coot, a bird-name, Porphyrio melanotus, Temm.; Blue, P. bellus, Gould.

1928 D. Cottrell Singing Gold i. ii. 16 I might see..a red-legged blue baldcoot, glittering like metal.

b. Proverbial phrases. as bald (bare, black) as a coot; as stupid as a coot (this and the epithet ‘mad coot’ may have originally applied to the Foolish Guillemot).

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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no

calloweOE

baldc1386

as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430

forehead-bald1530

pilled-pated1542

bald-pate1578

bald-headed1580

bald-pated1606

bald-head1820

baldish1833

tonsured1855

pollard1856

thin on top1869

slap-headed1994

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xv And yet he was as balde as is a coote.

a1536 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John in Wks. (1849) II. 224 The body..is made as bare as Job, and as bald as a coot.

1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. iii. i. ii. 468 I haue an old grimme sire to my husband, as bald as a cout.

1687 Honour of Taylors v. 9 They poled him as bare as a Coot, by shaving off his Hair.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 272/1 The Proverb, as black as the Coot.

3. Locally applied (with distinctive additions) to the Water-rail and Water-hen or Gallinule.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Rallus > rallus aquaticus (water rail)

raila1450

coot1547

brook ouzel1611

bidcock1622

water rail1655

runner1668

water crake1676

bilcock1678

velvet runner1678

skiddy1787

fen-cock1880

1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Mwyalch y dwr [lit. ‘ouzel of the water’: cf. ‘Brook ouzel’ = Water-rail (Swainson, 176)], A cote.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Coot, the Water-hen.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Coot, the water-hen.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 176 Water-rail..Skitty coot (Devon, Cornwall).

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 178 Moor Hen..Cuddy. Moor coot. Kitty coot (Dorset).

4. figurative [Cf. 2b ] A silly person, simpleton. (colloquial, dialect, and U.S.)

ΚΠ

1766 E. Buys Sewel's Compl. Dict. Eng. & Dutch 138/2 A very coot, (or fool).

1794 Gazette of U.S. (Philadelphia) 17 Jan. But Satan was not such a coot To sell Judea for a goat.

1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 44 in Compl. Hist. Murder Mr. Weare The poor plucked pigeon (now become a Bald Coot) lost his reason.]

1848–60 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Coot..is often applied by us to a stupid person; as, ‘He is a poor coot’.

a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) ix. 33 He's an amazin' ignorant old coot.

a1860 Margaret 134 Little coot! don't you know the Bible is the best book in the world?

1929 W. J. Smyth Girl from Mason Creek i. 17 You're a clumsy coot.

1963 Daily Mail 26 Aug. 4/2 Masters call boys ‘coots’ and boys call each other ‘nits’.

Compounds

† coot-foot n. Obsolete a name given by some to the Phalarope. coot-footed adj. having feet like a coot's; hence †coot-footed tringa, a name given by Edwards to the red or grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius. coot-grebe n. a name given by some to the Fin-foot or Sun-grebe Heliornis.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Phalaropodidae > phalaropus fulicarus (red phalarope)

coot-footed tringa1758

whale-bird1771

red phalarope1776

red lobefoot1819

red coot-foot1828

1758 G. Edwards in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 255 I chuse, by way of distinction, to name it the coot-footed tringa.

1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 491 Grey Phalarope..Grey Coot footed Tringa.

Draft additions June 2014

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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cootn.²

Brit.

/kuːt/, U.S.

/kut/, Scottish English

/kut/

Forms: Also cuit, cute.

Etymology: A Common Low German word, found in Scots since c1500: compare Middle Dutch cōte, cöte, Flemish keute, Dutch koot (feminine), knuckle-bone; East Frisian kote, kôt ankle-joint, ankle; Old Frisian kâte joint, knuckle; Middle Low German kote, Low German kote, köte, also in modern German in sense ‘pastern-joint, fetlock’: see Grimm.

Scottish.

1. The ankle-joint.

ΚΠ

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 For rerd of the and rattling of thy butis..Sum claschis the, sum cloddis the on the cutis.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 17 Some had hoggars, some straw boots, Some uncover'd legs and coots.

a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 81 Whyles o'er the coots in holes he plumped.

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 531 With feet, with cuits, unshod—but clean.

2. The fetlock of a horse.

ΚΠ

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 81 Rub my horse-belly and his coots, And when I get them, dight my boots.

3. A thing of small value; a trifle.Perhaps, originally a knuckle-bone used by children in playing, as in Middle Dutch cote ‘osselet du bout des piedz de bestes, de quoy jouent les enfants, astragalus, talus’ (Plantijn): see also Grimm, Köte 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial

gnatc1000

ball play?c1225

smalla1250

triflec1290

fly1297

child's gamec1380

motec1390

mitec1400

child's playc1405

trufferyc1429

toyc1450

curiosity1474

fly-winga1500

neither mass nor matins1528

boys' play1538

nugament1543

knack?1544

fable1552

nincety-fincety1566

mouse1584

molehill1590

coot1594

scoff1594

nidgery1611

pin matter1611

triviality1611

minuity1612

feathera1616

fillip1621

rattle1622

fiddlesticka1625

apex1625

rush candle1628

punctilio1631

rushlight1635

notchet1637

peppercorn1638

petty John1640

emptiness1646

fool-fangle1647

nonny-no1652

crepundian1655

fly-biting1659

pushpin1660

whinny-whanny1673

whiffle1680

straw1692

two and a plack1692

fiddle1695

trivial1715

barley-strawa1721

nothingism1742

curse1763

nihility1765

minutia1782

bee's knee1797

minutiae1797

niff-naff1808

playwork1824

floccinaucity1829

trivialism1830

chicken feed1834

nonsensical1842

meemaw1862

infinitesimality1867

pinfall1868

fidfad1875

flummadiddle1882

quantité négligeable1885

quotidian1902

pipsqueak1905

hickey1909

piddle1910

cream puff1920

squat1934

administrivia1937

chickenshit1938

cream puff1938

diddly-squat1963

non-issue1965

Tinkertoy1972

1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 294, in Wks. (1931) I. 154 Ȝour crakkis I count thame not ane cute.

a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlvi I count not of my lyf a cute.

a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonn. (1886) xlvi I count ȝour cunning is not worth a cute.

a1627 A. Craig Pilgrime & Heremite (1631) sig. A3^v I care not a cuit for her sake to bee slayne.

Compounds

coot-bone n. ankle-bone, knuckle-bone, esp. as used to play with.

ΚΠ

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Pickelen, to Play at Coot-bone as boyes doe.

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cootn.³

Brit.

/kuːt/, U.S.

/kut/

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: coot n.¹

Etymology: Apparently a transferred use of coot n.¹, probably arising from analysis of cooty adj. as derived from a noun in this sense. Compare cootie n.²See note at cootie n.² for an alternative explanation of the origin of this word, cooty adj., and cootie n.²

Military slang. Now historical.

A louse. Cf. cootie n.² 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Siphunculata > member of genus Pediculus (louse) > pediculus corporis (body-louse)

body louse1545

crumb1863

typhus louse1910

coot1915

cootie1917

pants rabbits1917

1915 H. Chapin Let. 7 Sept. in Soldier & Dramatist (1917) 270 Loud cries—Willet very pale and excited grappling with an enormous ‘coot’ (otherwise louse).

1916 P. MacGill Red Horizon 196 When I get the beer I'll capture a coot, a big bull coot, an' make 'im drunk.

1918 F. P. Adams Cootie's Garden Verses in Stars & Stripes 26 Apr. 4/3 A soldier boy should never swear When coots are in his underwear.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cootv.¹

? Obsolete.

intransitive. Of tortoises: To copulate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [verb (intransitive)] > copulate (of tortoises)

coot1667

1667 H. Stubbe in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 500 The Tortoises..coot for fourteen daies together.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. Index sig. E2^v When they Coot or couple.

Derivatives

ˈcooting n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle > copulating of

cooting1750

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 309 In cooting-time.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

cootv.²

Brit.

/kuːt/, U.S.

/kut/

Etymology: Derivation obscure: some associate it with cote in dove-cote, bell-cote.

local.

To slope back the upper part of the gable of a house, the end of a hay-rick, etc., so as to form a ‘pavilion’ or ‘tabernacle’ roof.

ΚΠ

1892 Correspt. at Mere, Wilts. A rick or cottage has its ends ‘cooted’ or ‘cooted in’, when instead of being carried up perpendicularly to the ridge, they are so carried up only to the same height as the side-walls, and then sloped back.

Derivatives

ˈcooted adj.

ΚΠ

1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Hay-ricks are..sometimes oblong with cooted ends, not gable ends.

ˈcooting n.

ΚΠ

1892 Correspt. at Mere, Wilts. Sometimes the ends are carried perpendicularly to a greater height than the sides, and then sloped back: this is called half-cooting... Gable-end ricks are rarely seen here, the general practice being to coot them in.

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n.¹1382

n.²?a1513

n.³1915

v.¹1667

v.²1811

单词	coot
释义	cootn.¹ Brit. /kuːt/, U.S. /kut/ Forms: Middle English–1600s cote, coote, (Middle English cute, cuytt, 1500s–1600s cout(e), 1600s– coot. Etymology: Middle English cote, coote, corresponding to Dutch koet (recorded c1600); a Low German word, the earlier history of which is unknown. The long o of Middle English cōte, evidenced also by the Dutch form, which implies Middle Dutch cōte, coete, makes impossible the conjecture that the word is connected with Welsh cwt* short, which is on other grounds inadmissible. Prof. Newton thinks that there is a connection between coot and scoot or scout, another name of the guillemot, and allied sea-fowl; but the early history of the latter is obscure. 1. A name originally given vaguely or generically to various swimming and diving birds. In many cases it seems to have been applied to the Guillemot ( Uria troile), the Zee-koet or Sea-coot of the Dutch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > member of genus Uria (guillemot) coot1382 murre1578 scout1596 guillem1603 willock1606 kiddaw1674 sea-hen1676 guillemot1678 loom1694 lavy1698 foolish guillemot1776 willy1780 turr1794 tinkershere1799 strany1804 spratter1863 bacalao-bird1865 tinker1880 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xi. 16 An ostriche, and a nyȝt crowe, and a coote, and an hawke. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxvi. 429 The Cote highte Mergulus and hath that name of ofte doppynge and plungynge. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxvi. 429 It tokenyth moost certaynly full stronge tempeste in the see yf Cotes fle cryenge to the clyffes. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 38 One of the birds that frequent this rock [Buchan Ness] has..its body not larger than a duck's, and yet lays eggs as large as those of a goose. This bird is by the inhabitants named a Coot. That which is called Coot in England is here a Cooter. [This is some error: no such name is known.] 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Guillemot..Quet (Aberdeen). [Cf. Queit (Aberd.) = Coot in Jamieson.] 2. a. Afterwards restricted in literary use to the Bald Coot ( Fulica atra, family Rallidæ), Meer-koet of the Dutch, a web-footed bird inhabiting the margins of lakes and still rivers, having the base of the bill extended so as to form a broad white plate on the forehead (whence the epithet bald); in U.S. applied to the allied F. Americana; and generically extended to all the species of Fulica. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica > fulica atra (coot) bald-coota1300 water crowa1398 cootc1440 bell-kitea1525 devil1580 the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica coot1891 the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Fulica > fulica americana (American coot) water hen1704 Blue Peter1709 flusterer1709 coot1891 a1300 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 165 Une blarye, a balled cote.] c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 95 Coote, byrde [MS. K, cote brydde], mergus, fullica. 1483 Cath. Angl. 87 A Cute [MS. A, Cuytt], fulica, mergus. 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b A Couert of cootis. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.iii The doterell that folyshe pek And also the mad coote with a balde face to toote. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Foulque, a bird called a Coute. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. F 2 The Braine-bald Coot. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 149 Black Flusterers... Some call these the great bald Coot. a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 154 Where coots in rushy dingles hide. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 59 Upwards of one hundred and thirty American birds have been enumerated..[including] the bald coot. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 102 I come from haunts of coot and hern. 1891 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 12 Mar. 4/1 Twelve redheads, one bald pate and a coot were secured during the day. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 16/1 Bald-Coot, a bird-name, Porphyrio melanotus, Temm.; Blue, P. bellus, Gould. 1928 D. Cottrell Singing Gold i. ii. 16 I might see..a red-legged blue baldcoot, glittering like metal. b. Proverbial phrases. as bald (bare, black) as a coot; as stupid as a coot (this and the epithet ‘mad coot’ may have originally applied to the Foolish Guillemot). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no calloweOE baldc1386 as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430 forehead-bald1530 pilled-pated1542 bald-pate1578 bald-headed1580 bald-pated1606 bald-head1820 baldish1833 tonsured1855 pollard1856 thin on top1869 slap-headed1994 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xv And yet he was as balde as is a coote. a1536 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John in Wks. (1849) II. 224 The body..is made as bare as Job, and as bald as a coot. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. iii. i. ii. 468 I haue an old grimme sire to my husband, as bald as a cout. 1687 Honour of Taylors v. 9 They poled him as bare as a Coot, by shaving off his Hair. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 272/1 The Proverb, as black as the Coot. 3. Locally applied (with distinctive additions) to the Water-rail and Water-hen or Gallinule. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Rallus > rallus aquaticus (water rail) raila1450 coot1547 brook ouzel1611 bidcock1622 water rail1655 runner1668 water crake1676 bilcock1678 velvet runner1678 skiddy1787 fen-cock1880 1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Mwyalch y dwr [lit. ‘ouzel of the water’: cf. ‘Brook ouzel’ = Water-rail (Swainson, 176)], A cote. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Coot, the Water-hen. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Coot, the water-hen. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 176 Water-rail..Skitty coot (Devon, Cornwall). 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 178 Moor Hen..Cuddy. Moor coot. Kitty coot (Dorset). 4. figurative [Cf. 2b ] A silly person, simpleton. (colloquial, dialect, and U.S.) ΚΠ 1766 E. Buys Sewel's Compl. Dict. Eng. & Dutch 138/2 A very coot, (or fool). 1794 Gazette of U.S. (Philadelphia) 17 Jan. But Satan was not such a coot To sell Judea for a goat. 1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 44 in Compl. Hist. Murder Mr. Weare The poor plucked pigeon (now become a Bald Coot) lost his reason.] 1848–60 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Coot..is often applied by us to a stupid person; as, ‘He is a poor coot’. a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) ix. 33 He's an amazin' ignorant old coot. a1860 Margaret 134 Little coot! don't you know the Bible is the best book in the world? 1929 W. J. Smyth Girl from Mason Creek i. 17 You're a clumsy coot. 1963 Daily Mail 26 Aug. 4/2 Masters call boys ‘coots’ and boys call each other ‘nits’. Compounds † coot-foot n. Obsolete a name given by some to the Phalarope. coot-footed adj. having feet like a coot's; hence †coot-footed tringa, a name given by Edwards to the red or grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius. coot-grebe n. a name given by some to the Fin-foot or Sun-grebe Heliornis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Phalaropodidae > phalaropus fulicarus (red phalarope) coot-footed tringa1758 whale-bird1771 red phalarope1776 red lobefoot1819 red coot-foot1828 1758 G. Edwards in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 255 I chuse, by way of distinction, to name it the coot-footed tringa. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 491 Grey Phalarope..Grey Coot footed Tringa. Draft additions June 2014 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cootn.² Brit. /kuːt/, U.S. /kut/, Scottish English /kut/ Forms: Also cuit, cute. Etymology: A Common Low German word, found in Scots since c1500: compare Middle Dutch cōte, cöte, Flemish keute, Dutch koot (feminine), knuckle-bone; East Frisian kote, kôt ankle-joint, ankle; Old Frisian kâte joint, knuckle; Middle Low German kote, Low German kote, köte, also in modern German in sense ‘pastern-joint, fetlock’: see Grimm. Scottish. 1. The ankle-joint. ΚΠ a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 For rerd of the and rattling of thy butis..Sum claschis the, sum cloddis the on the cutis. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 17 Some had hoggars, some straw boots, Some uncover'd legs and coots. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 81 Whyles o'er the coots in holes he plumped. 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 531 With feet, with cuits, unshod—but clean. 2. The fetlock of a horse. ΚΠ 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 81 Rub my horse-belly and his coots, And when I get them, dight my boots. 3. A thing of small value; a trifle.Perhaps, originally a knuckle-bone used by children in playing, as in Middle Dutch cote ‘osselet du bout des piedz de bestes, de quoy jouent les enfants, astragalus, talus’ (Plantijn): see also Grimm, Köte 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 294, in Wks. (1931) I. 154 Ȝour crakkis I count thame not ane cute. a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlvi I count not of my lyf a cute. a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonn. (1886) xlvi I count ȝour cunning is not worth a cute. a1627 A. Craig Pilgrime & Heremite (1631) sig. A3^v I care not a cuit for her sake to bee slayne. Compounds coot-bone n. ankle-bone, knuckle-bone, esp. as used to play with. ΚΠ 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Pickelen, to Play at Coot-bone as boyes doe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cootn.³ Brit. /kuːt/, U.S. /kut/ Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: coot n.¹ Etymology: Apparently a transferred use of coot n.¹, probably arising from analysis of cooty adj. as derived from a noun in this sense. Compare cootie n.²See note at cootie n.² for an alternative explanation of the origin of this word, cooty adj., and cootie n.² Military slang. Now historical. A louse. Cf. cootie n.² 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Siphunculata > member of genus Pediculus (louse) > pediculus corporis (body-louse) body louse1545 crumb1863 typhus louse1910 coot1915 cootie1917 pants rabbits1917 1915 H. Chapin Let. 7 Sept. in Soldier & Dramatist (1917) 270 Loud cries—Willet very pale and excited grappling with an enormous ‘coot’ (otherwise louse). 1916 P. MacGill Red Horizon 196 When I get the beer I'll capture a coot, a big bull coot, an' make 'im drunk. 1918 F. P. Adams Cootie's Garden Verses in Stars & Stripes 26 Apr. 4/3 A soldier boy should never swear When coots are in his underwear. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cootv.¹ ? Obsolete. intransitive. Of tortoises: To copulate. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [verb (intransitive)] > copulate (of tortoises) coot1667 1667 H. Stubbe in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 500 The Tortoises..coot for fourteen daies together. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. Index sig. E2^v When they Coot or couple. Derivatives ˈcooting n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle > copulating of cooting1750 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 309 In cooting-time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018). cootv.² Brit. /kuːt/, U.S. /kut/ Etymology: Derivation obscure: some associate it with cote in dove-cote, bell-cote. local. To slope back the upper part of the gable of a house, the end of a hay-rick, etc., so as to form a ‘pavilion’ or ‘tabernacle’ roof. ΚΠ 1892 Correspt. at Mere, Wilts. A rick or cottage has its ends ‘cooted’ or ‘cooted in’, when instead of being carried up perpendicularly to the ridge, they are so carried up only to the same height as the side-walls, and then sloped back. Derivatives ˈcooted adj. ΚΠ 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Hay-ricks are..sometimes oblong with cooted ends, not gable ends. ˈcooting n. ΚΠ 1892 Correspt. at Mere, Wilts. Sometimes the ends are carried perpendicularly to a greater height than the sides, and then sloped back: this is called half-cooting... Gable-end ricks are rarely seen here, the general practice being to coot them in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1382n.²?a1513n.³1915v.¹1667v.²1811
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