Sc. [f. COOT sb.2 ankle + -Y.] Having legs clad with feathers.

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1787.  Burns, Tam Samson’s Elegy, vii. Ye cootie moor-cocks, crousely craw.

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1814.  Train, Mountain Muse, 49. The cooty cock ahint the door Did clap his wings and craw.

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