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baldicoots

baldicoots is the plural of baldicoot.

Meaning of baldicoot

Noun

baldicoot (plural baldicoots)

  1. The coot (bird), with its pure white wide frontal plate.
  2. (archaic, derogatory, slang) A monk with a shaven head.
    • 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!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

Questions about baldicoots

What is baldicoots the plural of?
Baldicoots is the plural of baldicoot.

Words near baldicoots in the dictionary

  1. baldhead
  2. baldheaded
  3. baldheads
  4. Baldi
  5. baldicoot
  6. baldicoots
  7. baldie
  8. baldies
  9. Baldilocks
  10. balding
  11. Baldings

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