coot

• He wore a tweed sportjacket with a flannel shirt and a brown felt hat that he tugged off when he spotted Alice This old coot was her visitor? —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
• While some loved Pacino's turn as a cantankerous coot, the portrayal was ridiculed by others as too Foghorn Leghorn-esque. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
• 114. I think the epithet 'changeful' prettier, and, until we know what a coot is like, more descriptive, than 'coot-like'; the bird having red plumage in summer, and gray in winter, while the coot is always black. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• It fairly swarms with teal and coot, and see the snipe on the sand." —  The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
• He's a poor coot, and will soon get used to my ways; won't you, deary The husband didn't make an audible reply, but I understood him to say "Damn," quite distinctly What have you got for supper!" —  The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia

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