"cooter" meaning in All languages combined

See cooter on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkutɚ/ Audio: En-au-cooter.ogg Forms: cooters [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), from an African language, e.g. Bambara kuta (“turtle”). Attested in English from the 19th century. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|gul|cootuh||turtle}} Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), {{cog|bm|kuta||turtle}} Bambara kuta (“turtle”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} cooter (plural cooters)
  1. A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys.
    Sense id: en-cooter-en-noun-bj5w4TP6 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, Genitalia Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 71 16 2 2 8 Disambiguation of Genitalia: 33 16 7 37 7
  2. A box turtle.
    Sense id: en-cooter-en-noun-oOLr2S3j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Emydid turtles, Genitalia Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 59 1 1 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 56 1 2 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 59 1 2 2 Disambiguation of Emydid turtles: 18 76 1 1 3 Disambiguation of Genitalia: 33 16 7 37 7
  3. (slang) A redneck. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cooter-en-noun-nqYnRYOM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Cooter Brown
Etymology number: 1 Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0 0

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkutɚ/ Audio: En-au-cooter.ogg Forms: cooters [plural]
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly identical to Etymology 1, above; compare clam, beaver. Alternatively, compare cooch from hootchy-kootchy. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain Head templates: {{en-noun}} cooter (plural cooters)
  1. (colloquial) Vagina or vulva. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-cooter-en-noun-NAcX7a0u Categories (other): Genitalia Disambiguation of Genitalia: 33 16 7 37 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2 Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0 0

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkutɚ/ Audio: En-au-cooter.ogg Forms: cooters [plural]
Etymology: See couter. Head templates: {{en-noun}} cooter (plural cooters)
  1. Alternative form of couter (“a sovereign (coin)”). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: couter (extra: (“a sovereign (coin)”))
    Sense id: en-cooter-en-noun-7G2vYjJn
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3 Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "en",
      "name": "People",
      "orig": "en:People",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gul",
        "3": "cootuh",
        "4": "",
        "5": "turtle"
      },
      "expansion": "Gullah cootuh (“turtle”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bm",
        "2": "kuta",
        "3": "",
        "4": "turtle"
      },
      "expansion": "Bambara kuta (“turtle”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), from an African language, e.g. Bambara kuta (“turtle”). Attested in English from the 19th century.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cooters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cooter (plural cooters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Cooter Brown"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "71 16 2 2 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 16 7 37 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Genitalia",
          "orig": "en:Genitalia",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys."
      ],
      "id": "en-cooter-en-noun-bj5w4TP6",
      "links": [
        [
          "freshwater",
          "freshwater"
        ],
        [
          "turtle",
          "turtle"
        ],
        [
          "Pseudemys",
          "Pseudemys#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 59 1 1 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 56 1 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 59 1 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 76 1 1 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Emydid turtles",
          "orig": "en:Emydid turtles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 16 7 37 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Genitalia",
          "orig": "en:Genitalia",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A box turtle."
      ],
      "id": "en-cooter-en-noun-oOLr2S3j",
      "links": [
        [
          "box turtle",
          "box turtle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A redneck."
      ],
      "id": "en-cooter-en-noun-nqYnRYOM",
      "links": [
        [
          "redneck",
          "redneck"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A redneck."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkutɚ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cooter.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg/En-au-cooter.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cooter"
}

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "en",
      "name": "People",
      "orig": "en:People",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Possibly identical to Etymology 1, above; compare clam, beaver. Alternatively, compare cooch from hootchy-kootchy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cooters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cooter (plural cooters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 16 7 37 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Genitalia",
          "orig": "en:Genitalia",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              62
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2006, Tiva Wallon, A Donovan to Love, page 65:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vagina or vulva."
      ],
      "id": "en-cooter-en-noun-NAcX7a0u",
      "links": [
        [
          "Vagina",
          "vagina"
        ],
        [
          "vulva",
          "vulva"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Vagina or vulva."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkutɚ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cooter.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg/En-au-cooter.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Green's Dictionary of Slang"
  ],
  "word": "cooter"
}

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "en",
      "name": "People",
      "orig": "en:People",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_text": "See couter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cooters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cooter (plural cooters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "(“a sovereign (coin)”)",
          "word": "couter"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of couter (“a sovereign (coin)”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-cooter-en-noun-7G2vYjJn",
      "links": [
        [
          "couter",
          "couter#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkutɚ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cooter.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg/En-au-cooter.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cooter"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Gullah",
    "English terms derived from Gullah",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Emydid turtles",
    "en:Genitalia",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gul",
        "3": "cootuh",
        "4": "",
        "5": "turtle"
      },
      "expansion": "Gullah cootuh (“turtle”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bm",
        "2": "kuta",
        "3": "",
        "4": "turtle"
      },
      "expansion": "Bambara kuta (“turtle”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), from an African language, e.g. Bambara kuta (“turtle”). Attested in English from the 19th century.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cooters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cooter (plural cooters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Cooter Brown"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "freshwater",
          "freshwater"
        ],
        [
          "turtle",
          "turtle"
        ],
        [
          "Pseudemys",
          "Pseudemys#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A box turtle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "box turtle",
          "box turtle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A redneck."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "redneck",
          "redneck"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A redneck."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkutɚ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cooter.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg/En-au-cooter.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cooter"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Emydid turtles",
    "en:Genitalia",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Possibly identical to Etymology 1, above; compare clam, beaver. Alternatively, compare cooch from hootchy-kootchy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cooters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cooter (plural cooters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              62
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2006, Tiva Wallon, A Donovan to Love, page 65:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vagina or vulva."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Vagina",
          "vagina"
        ],
        [
          "vulva",
          "vulva"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Vagina or vulva."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkutɚ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cooter.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg/En-au-cooter.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Green's Dictionary of Slang"
  ],
  "word": "cooter"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Emydid turtles",
    "en:Genitalia",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_text": "See couter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cooters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cooter (plural cooters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "(“a sovereign (coin)”)",
          "word": "couter"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of couter (“a sovereign (coin)”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "couter",
          "couter#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkutɚ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-cooter.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg/En-au-cooter.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/En-au-cooter.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cooter"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cooter meaning in All languages combined (4.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.