"Cooter Brown" meaning in English

See Cooter Brown in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Cooter Brown
  1. (US) An archetypal drunkard. Wikipedia link: Cooter Brown Tags: US Synonyms: Cootie Brown
    Sense id: en-Cooter_Brown-en-name-QpaaaVkg Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Cooter Brown meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Cooter Brown",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 November 16, Harold Martin, “Dreams and Dust”, in The Atlanta Constitution, page 9",
          "text": "“Yes, sir,” said Private Barton, “it looks like trouble has got a tail-holt on us with a downhill drag. I sometimes feel like going and gittin’ drunk as Cooter Brown”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, John Pritchard, The Yazoo Blues, page 54",
          "text": "I’m talkin’ about Admiral Porter, General Quimby, and Ulysses S-hole-fukkin Grant hissef, and he was drunker’n Cooter Brown a large part of the time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 26, Nikola Budanovic, “The Origin of the Phrase ‘Drunk as Cooter Brown’ Dates Back from the American Civil War and Refers to a Heavy Drinker Who Escaped Being Drafted Due to His Continuous Intoxication”, in War History Online",
          "text": "In order to avoid military draft, Cooter Brown started drinking excessively every day until the war ended. […] According to this version of the story, the phrase originated from those days, as Cooter Brown’s continuous state of intoxication became legendary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An archetypal drunkard."
      ],
      "id": "en-Cooter_Brown-en-name-QpaaaVkg",
      "links": [
        [
          "archetypal",
          "archetypal"
        ],
        [
          "drunkard",
          "drunkard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) An archetypal drunkard."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Cootie Brown"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Cooter Brown"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cooter Brown"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Cooter Brown",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 November 16, Harold Martin, “Dreams and Dust”, in The Atlanta Constitution, page 9",
          "text": "“Yes, sir,” said Private Barton, “it looks like trouble has got a tail-holt on us with a downhill drag. I sometimes feel like going and gittin’ drunk as Cooter Brown”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, John Pritchard, The Yazoo Blues, page 54",
          "text": "I’m talkin’ about Admiral Porter, General Quimby, and Ulysses S-hole-fukkin Grant hissef, and he was drunker’n Cooter Brown a large part of the time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 26, Nikola Budanovic, “The Origin of the Phrase ‘Drunk as Cooter Brown’ Dates Back from the American Civil War and Refers to a Heavy Drinker Who Escaped Being Drafted Due to His Continuous Intoxication”, in War History Online",
          "text": "In order to avoid military draft, Cooter Brown started drinking excessively every day until the war ended. […] According to this version of the story, the phrase originated from those days, as Cooter Brown’s continuous state of intoxication became legendary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An archetypal drunkard."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "archetypal",
          "archetypal"
        ],
        [
          "drunkard",
          "drunkard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) An archetypal drunkard."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Cooter Brown"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Cootie Brown"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cooter Brown"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.