coot
/kuːt/
coot noun: any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
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Noun (1)
coot (plural coots)
- Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
- A foolish or eccentric fellow
- A silly coot
- An old coot
Noun (2)
coot (plural coots)
- Body louse (Pediculus humanus).
coot meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese
coot in Tamil
- நாமக்கோழி
coot in Arabic
- bird
- غُرَّة ḡurra
coot in Persian
- bird
- خشنسار xašansâr, ماغ mâġ
coot in Vietnamese
- bird
- sâm cầm
More languagesFewer languages
- Dhivehi
- ސަލްވާ ދޫނި salvā dūni
Examples of coot in a sentence
- I wonder if that old coot has got what they call 'delusions of grandeur'?"1918, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 190, numbers 35-43, page 109:
- Your clerks would come in and see you aswingin' and aswayin' there and one of them would say: "Well, the old coot's hung himself!"1926, Don Marquis, The Old Soak: A Comedy in Three Acts, volume 2, page 84:
- ‘What the hell’s up with that coot?’ Windy growled.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 115:
Forms of coot
| plural | coots |
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Origin of coot
From Middle English cote, coote, cute, cuytt (“coot”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from an unrecorded Old English word, or borrowed from Middle Dutch coet, cuut, kuut (“coot”) (whence modern Dutch koet and meerkoet (“coot”)). Possibly related to Middle High German kūz, kūze (modern German Kauz (“owl”)), Old English cȳta (“kite, bittern”) (whence English kite), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *kūt (“bird of prey”). See kite.
Compare cootie.
Words formed from coot
- American coot
- Andean coot
- Caribbean coot
- Eurasian coot
- giant coot
- Hawaiian coot
- horned coot
- Fulica cornuta)
- mascarene coot
- red-fronted coot
- red-gartered coot
- red-knobbed coot
- sea coot
- white-winged coot
- bald as a coot
- cootling
- cracked as a coot
- crazy as a coot
- daffy as a coot
- daft as a coot
- deaf as a coot
- dizzy as a coot
- drunk as a coot
- gay as a coot
- happy as a coot
- loony as a coot
- mad as a coot
- old coot
- pissed as a coot
- queer as a coot
- rich coot
- silly as a coot
- simple as a coot
- cootfoot
- cooty
Words that rhyme with coot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
- cheroot
Questions about coot
- What does coot mean?
- Coot means any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
- What is coot in Tamil?
- Coot in Tamil is நாமக்கோழி. See Coot meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use coot in a sentence?
- I wonder if that old coot has got what they call 'delusions of grandeur'?"
- What part of speech is coot?
- Coot is a noun.
- How do you pronounce coot?
- Coot is pronounced /kuːt/.
- What is the plural of coot?
- The plural of coot is coots.
Words near coot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: coot (page history and authors); coot (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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