alcatote

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Unknown. The beginning may be related to elk or auk.

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alcatote (plural alcatotes)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) A foolish oaf.
    • c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: [], London: [] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, [], published 1638, →OCLC, Act IIII, page 54:
      VVhy? you knovv I [am] an ignorant unable trifle in ſuch buſineſſe; an Oafe, a ſimple Alcatote; an Innocent.