Cooter
pronunciation
How to pronounce Cooter in British English:
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- Noun:
- large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico
Word Origin
- cooter (n.)
- 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), from obsolete verb coot "to copulate" (1660s), which is of unknown origin. The turtle is said to copulate for two weeks at a stretch.
Example
- 1. I don 't know how we 're gonna pay you back , cooter .
- 2. Why don 't we have Cooter stash that .
- 3. Roger Cooter and His Research on the Social History of Medicine
- 4. In order to solve this problem , Cooter and Ulen brought forward their own theory on the base of Hand formula , which is more reasonable than Hand formula .