baldicoot

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/ˈbɔːldɪkuːt/

noun

The coot (bird), with its pure white wide frontal plate.

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Meanings

nounbaldicoot (plural baldicoots)

plural baldicoots

  1. The coot (bird), with its pure white wide frontal plate.
  2. archaicderogatoryslangA monk with a shaven head.

    Taceing free women in the nave! This comes of your princesses, that turn the world upside down, and demean themselves to hob and nob with these black baldicoots!

    1848, Charles Kingsley, Junior, The Saint’s Tragedy; or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 176

Origin

From bald and coot.

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APA

baldicoot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baldicoot

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“baldicoot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baldicoot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “baldicoot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baldicoot.

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