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Coots vs Coost - What's the difference?

coots | coost |

As a noun coots

is plural of coot.

As a verb coost is

past tense of cast.

coots

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    *

    coost

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete, or, Scottish) (cast)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Alexander Hislop, title=The Proverbs of Scotland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I had but little butter, an' that I coost on the coals. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1780, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=1783 Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe., The An Unco Mournfu' Tale As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, An' owre she warsl'd in the ditch: There, groaning, dying, she did lie, When Hughoc he cam doytin by. }}