ChatterBank1 min ago
bald as a coot
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wot is a coot?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If you click here the link will take you to a dictionary website about the coot. Once there, scroll down to the section that opens: "Bald coot". Reading on you will see the words: "the bare patch on the front of the head."
The Oxford English Dictionary has this to say about the bird: "having the base of the bill extended so as to form a broad white plate on the forehead (whence the epithet bald)."
So...a bare patch or a plate...it certainly seems to be featherless.