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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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