different between cooter vs colter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kut?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), from an African language, e.g. Bambara kuta (“turtle”).

Noun

cooter (plural cooters)

1. A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys.
2. The box turtle.
3. (slang) A redneck.

See also

• Cooter Brown

Etymology 2

Compare cooch.

Noun

cooter (plural cooters)

1. (colloquial) Vagina or vulva.

Etymology 3

Noun

cooter (plural cooters)

1. Alternative form of couter (“a sovereign (coin)”)

English

Alternative forms

• coulter (mostly Commonwealth)
• culter

Etymology

From Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?lt??/

Noun

colter (plural colters)

1. A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.9:

     I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
2. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Translations

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82

Anagrams

• Cotler, lector