Definition of Cooter

1. Noun. Large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico.

Exact synonyms: Pseudemys Concinna, River Cooter
Generic synonyms: Turtle
Group relationships: Genus Pseudemys, Pseudemys

Definition of Cooter

1. n. A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.

Definition of Cooter

1. Noun. A freshwater tortoise (''Pseudemus concinna'') of Florida. ¹

2. Noun. (context: vulgar slang) vagina. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) A redneck. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cooter

1. a turtle [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooter

coorses
coos
coosen
coosened
coosening
coosens
cooser
coosers
coosin
coosined
coosining
coosins
coost
coot
cootchie-cootchie-coo
cooters
cootie
cooties
cootikin
cootikins
cootling
coots
cooty
coown
coowned
coowner
coowners
coowning
coowns

Literary usage of Cooter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
"“Dat mornin' at nine o'clock, B'er Deer he did met B'er cooter at de fus mie-pos', ... B'er cooter say: ‘Go long, B'er Deer. I git dere in due season time,' ..."

2. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, Told in the Vernacular by Charles Colcock Jones (1888)
"Wen de time come fur run de race, Buh Deer an Buh cooter bofe stat off togedder. Befo you kin tun roun Buh Deer done gone out uh sight, an lef Buh cooter in ..."

3. Afro-American Folk Lore: told round cabin fires on the Sea islands of South by Abigail M. H. Christensen (1892)
"cooter him hab short foot, an' him know him couldn't run 'long wid Deer. But 'e tol' um once, when dey bofe meet in de gal house at one time —' e say, ..."

4. Preparing for Climate Change: Proceedings, Second North American Conference (1993)
"... E. cooter, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and W. cooter, Oklahoma Conservation Commision Temperature scenarios generated by three Global Climate Models ..."

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