Cooter Brown

alternative Cootie Brown

1. USAn archetypal drunkard.

   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.

   2008, John Pritchard, The Yazoo Blues, →ISBN, page 54

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   “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”.

   1941 November 16, Harold Martin, “Dreams and Dust”, in The Atlanta Constitution, page 9

   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.

   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