What's the difference between cooter and rooter?

Cooter


Definition:

  • (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
  • (n.) The box tortoise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you ask me what it symbolizes, it symbolizes, in a personal way, the courage and the valor of my ancestors, who in their time did what they believed was the right thing to do.” Jones, 73, who runs a chain of “Cooter’s Place” outlets in the south that sell Dukes memorabilia including Confederate flag license plates , said the flag had a place in southern culture that had become detached from its history as a battle flag – and from the question of race and racism.
  • (2) But he is better known as the actor who played the mechanic Cooter in the 1980s hit television show The Dukes of Hazzard .

Rooter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

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