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Large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico
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cooter
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 440 Housing Units (2000): 200 Land area (2000): 0.294810 sq. miles (0.763555 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.294810 sq. miles (0.763555 sq. km) FIPS code: 16336 Located within: Missouri ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cooter may refer to: Turtles Cooter turtle (genus Pseudemys ) Places Cooter, Missouri Slang Slang term for the vulva Entertainment The Great American Cooter Festival in Inverness, Florida , held in celebration of their local turtles "Cooter" (30 Rock) , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name for some types of freshwater terrapin in southern U.S., 1835 (first attested 1827 in phrase drunk as a cooter , but this probably is a colloquial form of unrelated coot ), from obsolete verb coot "to copulate" (1660s), which is of unknown origin. The ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico [syn: river cooter , Pseudemys concinna ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cooter \Coot"er\ (-[~e]r), n. (Zo["o]l.) A fresh-water tortoise ( Pseudemus concinna ) of Florida. The box tortoise.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A freshwater tortoise of the eastern United States of the genus (taxlink Pseudemus genus noshow=1). 2 The box turtle. 3 (context slang English) A redneck. Etymology 2 n. (context colloquial English) vagina or vulva.
Usage examples of cooter.
I wanted to talk to you and with the mood of the lawmen in the area, Cooter thought this would be the safest way.
Cooter promise him that if anything happened to him, Cooter would see to it that you and your mother left Sierra Vieja and went back east.
I was supposed to go to the drive-in Sunday night with Cooter Bogbean, but now I get to prance around a pasture, telling little old ladies where to sit and trying not to throw up when people start babbling about the Holy Spirit.
The rhythmic munch of her hungry cooters had become almost unbearable.
One afternoon she counted eleven little cooters perched on flat rocks and logs.
So she'd concentrated on the cooters, and from a pet-supply catalog at Dr.
The sounds of crunching filled the room: JoLayne's cooters, enjoying breakfast.
Demencio had figured it would be no less absurd to decorate JoLayne's cooters with the faces of religious figures.
Demencio was fixing a sandwich in the kitchen when Trish urgently reported that the cooters were dehydrating in the sun and that the paint on their shells was beginning to flake.
He shuffled groggily into the living room at the worst possible moment, just as the baby cooters were being carried away.
Tom took the baby cooters out of the tank one at a time and placed them in a linen pillowcase, which he knotted loosely at the neck.
JoLayne, pointing at the tea-colored ribbon of water: "That's where the cooters come from.
Whereupon Demencio had expelled her and settled down with the cooters to paint.
Sinclair was overcome the instant he touched the cooters: a warm tingle that started preternaturally in his palms and raced up both arms to his spine.
Sinclair picked up one of the painted cooters and set it delicately in his lap.