Definitions for coots

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coots coot

Spelling: [koot]

IPA: /kut/

Coots is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in coots (coost).

Definitions for coots

noun

1. any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
2. any of various other swimming or diving birds, especially the scoters.
3. Informal. a foolish or crotchety person, especially one who is old.

Origin of coots

1250-1300; Middle English cote; cognate with Dutch koet

Examples for coots

Vit smoking, no; you cannot smok vat is coot; it is all pad togeder.

The sportsman will enjoy no peace until he sacrifices a coot.

“Then it was thou as coot the bands,” cried Joe, seizing him by the throat.

I hear the noise of a coot proceeding from the reeds of a pond.

The coot (Fulica atra) is a rail which has taken thoroughly to the water.

“Dinna lat him coot it off, Meester Stevey, sir,” he whispered.

But there is no necessity to shoot the coot in order to identify it.

He's as lonely as a coot; it's a thousand pities he ever lost his wife.

Putt when Nature says "No further," then it is no coot snapping your fingers in her face.

The nest and eggs of the coot are very like those of the common Moorhen.