What is "cooters"

Usage examples of "cooters".

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.

When he tipped the tank on one side, thirty-three newly sanctified cooters swarmed forth to join the others in the moat.

After the last of the pilgrims were gone, Shiner's mother approached the besheeted Sinclair, who was sloshing playfully with the cooters in the moat.

Krome picked up one the cooters, upon which a bearded face had been painted.