Eccentric oldster
The crossword clue "Eccentric oldster" is answered by COOT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COOT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COOT answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for COOT
Every other clue in this collection answered by COOT, most used first.
- Geezer - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Codger - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
- Water bird. - used 24 times, most recently in 2011
- Aquatic bird - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Ducklike bird - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Eccentric fellow - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Curmudgeon - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Old geezer - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Scoter - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
- Crotchety oldster - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Diving bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Crotchety one - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Crotchety sort - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Old codger - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Biblical oldster - ENOS, used 26 times
- Eccentric - KOOK, used 12 times
- Eccentric one - KOOK, used 12 times
- Eccentric sort - KOOK, used 6 times
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