Doot vs Coot - What's the difference?
doot | coot |
(chiefly, Scotland) doubt
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=John Hay Beith, title=All In It: K(1) Carries On, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!" }}
(chiefly, Scotland) think
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=James C. Welsh, title=The Underworld, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty." }}
Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
(colloquial) A stupid fellow; a simpleton
* An old coot
* A rich coot
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=“You'll be able now to give it as your considered opinion that [Wilbert Cream] is as loony as a coot', Sir Roderick.” A pause ensued during which [the psychiatrist] appeared to be weighing this, possibly thinking back to ' coots he had met in the course of his professional career and trying to estimate their dippiness as compared with that of W. Cream.}}
A success; something excellent.
* Man that song's the coot .
* Would be the coot if we could go this weekend!
(slang) Body louse.
As a verb doot
is doubt.As a noun coot is
any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.doot
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(wikipedia coot) (Fulica)Noun
(en noun)- A silly coot .