cooter

cooter
noun Etymology: of African origin; akin to Bambara & Malinke kuta turtle Date: 1832 chiefly Southern any of several freshwater turtles (genus Pseudemys syn. Chrysemys, especially P. concinna) especially of the southern and eastern United States

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  • Cooter — Cooter, MO U.S. city in Missouri Population (2000): 440 Housing Units (2000): 200 Land area (2000): 0.294810 sq. miles (0.763555 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.294810 sq. miles (0.763555 sq.… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Cooter, MO — U.S. city in Missouri Population (2000): 440 Housing Units (2000): 200 Land area (2000): 0.294810 sq. miles (0.763555 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.294810 sq. miles (0.763555 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • cooter — name for some types of freshwater terrapin in southern U.S., 1835 (first attested 1827 in phrase drunk as a cooter, but this probably is a colloquial form of unrelated COOT (Cf. coot)), from obsolete verb coot to copulate (1660s), of unknown… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Cooter — Coot er ( [ e]r), n. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) A fresh water tortoise ({Pseudemus concinna}) of Florida. (b) The box tortoise. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cooter — [ko͞ot′ər] n. Chiefly South any of various large freshwater terrapins (esp. Pseudemys concinna) of the S U.S. and N Mexico …   English World dictionary

  • cooter — noun large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico • Syn: ↑river cooter, ↑Pseudemys concinna • Hypernyms: ↑turtle • Member Holonyms: ↑Pseudemys, ↑genus Pseudemys …   Useful english dictionary

  • Cooter Brown — is a name used in metaphors and similes for drunkenness, mostly in the southern United States. Cooter Brown supposedly lived on the line which divided the North and South during the American Civil War, making him eligible for military draft by… …   Wikipedia

  • Cooter (30 Rock) — Cooter 30 Rock episode Jack (right) and Cooter, the title character of the episode …   Wikipedia

  • Cooter Davenport — is a fictional character from the American TV show The Dukes of Hazzard. He was played by Ben Jones. Cooter was the mechanic in the fictional Hazzard County, in Georgia. He owned The Hazzard County Garage in Hazzard County Square, directly across …   Wikipedia

  • Cooter (Misuri) — Cooter Ciudad de los Estados Unidos …   Wikipedia Español

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