"as lousy as a coot"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

There are many similes "[adjective] as a coot".

Casual count of the first 200 items turned up by G. Books for "as a
coot" (1850-1915): irrelevancies omitted; duplicates omitted (when I
noticed them):

Bald 70
Crazy 19
Mad 17
Stupid 12
Poor 9
Drunk 5
Lousy 5
Silly 2
Simple 2
Solitary 2
Bare 1
Deaf 1
Dizzy 1
Foolish 1
Grey 1
Pilled 1
Sleepy 1
Timid 1
Wild 1

-- Doug Wilson

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