Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Lower Southern U.S. An edible freshwater turtle of the genus Chrysemys.
- n. Lower Southern U.S. Any of various turtles or tortoises. See Regional Note at goober.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The common box-turtle, Cistudo Carolina, of the United States: so called in the Southern States.
- n. A turtle of the family Clemmyidœ, Pseudemys concinna, also known as the Florida cooter.
Wiktionary
- n. A freshwater tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
- n. The box tortoise.
- n. slang A redneck.
- n. vulgar, slang vagina.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
- n. The box tortoise.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico
Etymologies
- Compare cooch. (Wiktionary)
- Gullah, of Niger-Congo origin; akin to Mandingo kuta. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boatman he is.”
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
“Hartman had told me to be on the lookout for the southeastern turtle name cooter, with the slang meaning ` pudendum. ”
“Random House implies that cooter rhymes with hooter; it might, outside of Charleston, but in Charleston, it doesn't.”
“Because I had such a busy morning I stayed up super late writing this, and because I am known to get a little slap-happy when I'm tired (see also: my last recap, which made prominent use of the word "cooter") I asked my friend and fellow pop culture enthusiast Owen to be my second set of eyes.”
The Huffington Post: Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance
“A, I'll go for "cooter" if I'm in polite society and need to tone it down.”
“Because I had such a busy morning I stayed up super late writing this, and because I am known to get a little slap-happy when I'm tired see also: my last recap, which made prominent use of the word "cooter" I asked my friend and fellow pop culture enthusiast Owen to be my second set of eyes.”
The Huffington Post: Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance
“Perhaps he should flash his 'cooter' while exiting a vehicle or two.”
“I found a "cooter" (terrapin) which had come out of the river to lay eggs.”
“Good lord who thought a statue of some erstwhile Hooters hostess lying spread-eagle on a bearskin rug with a kid’s head popping out of her cooter was a tribute to anything but velvet Elvis high camp.”
“a "cooter," being told that no such word as cooter was in Webster's dictionary, remarked that he had as much right to make a dictionary as”
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cooter’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Vagina
all the words for vagina other than vagina
cunt, twat, pussy, minge, cooter, beaver, snatch, axe gash, muff, box, slit, bearded clam and 36 more...
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Turtles
ellachick, chelopus, speckled terrapin, tortoise, terrapin, slider, spotted tortoise, chelonian, carapace, plastron, testudinate, pleurospondylian and 60 more...
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redfox's Words
moxie, boustrophedon, dendrite, deizen, numps, lovesome, whortle, ptarmigan, wot, deixis, litotes, zeugma and 32 more...
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Soap Box
call box, dialog box, voice box, boom box, soap box, press box, ballot box, scorebox, black box, chatterbox, letterbox, smegmatic box and 26 more...
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dkuo's Words
fuzzy, retrograde, abscond, deciduous, portmanteau, bellicose, couverture, poof, squelch, amalgam, hippopotamus, legume and 7 more...
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