Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An edible freshwater turtle of the genus Chrysemys.
- noun Any of various turtles or tortoises.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common box-turtle, Cistudo Carolina, of the United States: so called in the Southern States.
- noun A turtle of the family Clemmyidœ, Pseudemys concinna, also known as the Florida cooter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fresh-water tortoise (
Pseudemus concinna ) of Florida. - noun The box tortoise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
freshwater tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida. - noun The box tortoise.
- noun slang A
redneck . - noun vulgar, slang
vagina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boatman he is.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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Hartman had told me to be on the lookout for the southeastern turtle name cooter, with the slang meaning ` pudendum. '
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Random House implies that cooter rhymes with hooter; it might, outside of Charleston, but in Charleston, it doesn't.
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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.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance Una LaMarche 2010
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A, I'll go for "cooter" if I'm in polite society and need to tone it down.
Does "Frick" = "Fuck"? Tyler 2009
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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.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance Una LaMarche 2010
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Perhaps he should flash his 'cooter' while exiting a vehicle or two.
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I found a "cooter" (terrapin) which had come out of the river to lay eggs.
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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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.
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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 Sam R. Watkins
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