cooter

[ koo-ter ]

/ ˈku tər /

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noun

Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.

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Origin of cooter

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

Words nearby cooter

coorie, Coos, Coos Bay, coot, cootch, cooter, cootie, cooty, Coover, co-own, cooze

How to use cooter in a sentence

It was a bit of payback by Ben Jones, who played Cooter in The Dukes of Hazzard and lost a House race to Gingrich.
How Newt Gingrich Crashed and Burned When He Was House Speaker|Howard Kurtz, Lois Romano|December 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
My daughter tells me that Bowler played Cooter, the werewolf in True Blood.
Braving the Atlas Shrugged Crowd|Allen Barra|April 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Democrats have only the dude who played “Cooter” on The Dukes of Hazard to crow about.
Hollywood's Dirty Secret|John Avlon|May 14, 2009|DAILY BEAST
A “cooter” is a box-tortoise, and the noun is turned into a verb with an ease characteristic of the mountaineers.
Our Southern Highlanders|Horace Kephart

The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boatman he is.
Letters of a Traveller|William Cullen Bryant
Stop it I say—would you kill a feller just for a doggoned old cooter?
The Southerner|Thomas Dixon

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