baldicoot

noun — 2 senses

baldicoot

noun

/ˈbɔːldɪkuːt/

Etymology From bald and coot.

1

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

2

Archaic, Derogatory, Slang A 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:

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