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bandy-coot

bandy-coot is the obsolete spelling of bandicoot.

Meaning of bandicoot

Noun

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

  1. Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
    • At the rustle of a bandicoot we noticed the upraised gleam of eyes around the fires.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 149
  2. A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

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Forms of bandy-coot

pluralbandy-coots

Questions about bandy-coot

What is bandy-coot the obsolete spelling of?
Bandy-coot is the obsolete spelling of bandicoot.

Words near bandy-coot in the dictionary

  1. bandy about
  2. bandy around
  3. bandy words
  4. bandy-bandies
  5. bandy-bandy
  6. bandy-coot
  7. bandy-coots
  8. bandy-legged
  9. bandyball
  10. bandying
  11. bandying about

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bandy-coot (page history and authors); bandicoot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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