baldicoot
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[edit]baldicoot (plural baldicoots)
- The coot (bird), with its pure white wide frontal plate.
- (slang, archaic, derogatory) A monk with a shaven head.
- 1848, Charles Kingsley, Junior, The Saint’s Tragedy; or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 176:
- Taceing free women in the nave! This comes of your princesses, that turn the world upside down, and demean themselves to hob and nob with these black baldicoots!