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Updated: May 10, 2025
A knife is also called a chiv by the lowest class all over England. COUTER or COOTER is a common English slang term for a guinea. It was not necessary for the author of the Slang Dictionary to go to the banks of the Danube for the origin of a word which is in the mouths of all English Gipsies, and which was brought to England by their ancestors. A sovereign, a pound, in Gipsy, is a bar.
"No, I ain't workin' none jest spuddin' around." "Me? I'm jes' shacklin' around." "Yea, la! I'm jist loaferin' about." And yet one hears that our mountaineers have a limited vocabulary! A "cooter" is a box-tortoise, and the noun is turned into a verb with an ease characteristic of the mountaineers. "Spuddin' around" means toddling or jolting along.
And yet these well-wishings are not always insincere, and they are earnest enough when uttered in Gipsy. Jockey. Tool. Cove or Covey. Hook, Hookey, and Walker, Hocus, Hanky- Panky, and Hocus-Pocus. Shindy. Row. Chivvy. Bunged Eye. Shavers. Clichy. Caliban. A Rum 'un. Pal. Trash. Cadger. Cad. Bosh. Bats. Chee-chee. The Cheese. Chiv Fencer. Cooter. Gorger. Dick. Dook. Tanner. Drum. Gibberish. Ken.
Ripples that spread out from his quiet wake took the sun, and the measured dip of the swimmer's arm was no louder than the whig of the cooter that paddled in the shallows. "It had been a true word that Ongyatasse had given his life and his luck to White Quiver; the Lenape had done his best to give them back again.
The histories of the Lost Cause are all written out by "big bugs," generals and renowned historians, and like the fellow who called a turtle a "cooter," being told that no such word as cooter was in Webster's dictionary, remarked that he had as much right to make a dictionary as Mr. Webster or any other man; so have I to write a history.
One of the birds that frequent this rock has, as we were told, its body not larger than a duck's, and yet lays eggs as large as those of a goose. This bird is by the inhabitants named a Coot. That which is called Coot in England, is here a Cooter.
They had scarcely touched the ground before the Boy was on top pounding with both his little, clinched fists. "Stop it you're killin' me!" the under one screamed. "Will you let him alone?" the Boy hissed. "You're killin' me, I tell ye!" the tow-head yelled in terror. "Stop it I say would you kill a feller just for a doggoned old cooter?" "Will you let him alone?" "Yes, if ye won't kill me."
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