coot

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

coot (plural coots)

1. Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
2. (colloquial) A stupid fellow; a simpleton

   A silly coot.

   • An old coot
   • A rich coot
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

     “You'll be able now to give it as your considered opinion that [Wilbert Cream] is as loony as a coot, Sir Roderick.” A pause ensued during which [the psychiatrist] appeared to be weighing this, possibly thinking back to coots he had met in the course of his professional career and trying to estimate their dippiness as compared with that of W. Cream.

3. (slang, with the) A success; something excellent.
   • Man that song's the coot.
   • Would be the coot if we could go this weekend!
4. (slang) Body louse.

Derived terms

bird species

American coot, Fulica americana Andean coot, Fulica ardesiaca Caribbean coot, Fulica caribaea Eurasian coot, Fulica atra giant coot, Fulica gigantea Hawaiian coot, Fulica alai

horned coot, Fulica cornuta mascarene coot, Fulica newtoni red-fronted coot, Fulica rufifrons red-gartered coot, Fulica armillata red-knobbed coot, Fulica cristata white-winged coot, Fulica leucoptera

(other derived terms)

bald as a coot cracked as a coot crazy as a coot daft as a coot daffy as a coot deaf as a coot dizzy as a coot drunk as a coot gay as a coot

happy as a coot old coot loony as a coot mad as a coot pissed as a coot queer as a coot rich coot silly as a coot simple as a coot

Translations

bird

• Bulgarian: лиска (bg) f (liska)
• Catalan: fotja f
• Czech: lyska (cs) f
• Esperanto: fuliko
• Estonian: lauk
• Finnish: nokikana (fi)
• Georgian: მელოტა (melota)
• German: Blässhuhn (de) n, Blesshuhn (de) n, Blessralle f, Wasserhuhn n
• Greek: φαλαρίδα (el) f (falarída)
• Hungarian: szárcsa (hu)
• Italian: folaga f
• Japanese: オオバン (ooban)
• Jèrriais: mèrquerole f
• Kabardian: псыджэд (psəǯ̍ăd)

• Kazakh: қасқалдақ (qasqaldaq)
• Latvian: laucis m
• Lithuanian: laukys (lt) m
• Macedonian: лиска f (líska)
• Navajo: tóidoozohii bidaaʼ łigaiígíí
• Northern Sami: giehpavuoncci
• Polish: łyska (pl) f
• Portuguese: galeirão m
• Russian: лысуха (ru) f (lysúxa)
• Sardinian: puliga f
• Spanish: focha común f
• Swedish: sothöna (sv) c
• Welsh: cwtiar f

Related terms

bird

fulicine