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Cooter

//ˈkutɚ// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys.
  2. 2
    Vagina or vulva. colloquial

    "There was a bright red tongue tattooed over most of her cooter and there was a thick, gold ring that had been pierced through her clit."

  3. 3
    Alternative form of couter (“a sovereign (coin)”). alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico wordnet
  5. 5
    A box turtle.
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  1. 6
    A redneck. slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), from an African language, e.g. Bambara kuta (“turtle”). Attested in English from the 19th century.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly identical to Etymology 1, above; compare clam, beaver. Alternatively, compare cooch from hootchy-kootchy.

Etymology 3

See couter.

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