Cooter Brown

Well, I used to always hear this expression in my family.

When someone was being mischievous and you wanted to very gently scold them, you might call them cooter brown.

And as I have noticed down through the years in pop culture, you might say that someone was drunk as cooter brown.

And my mom and I were just wondering, you know, where that expression came from and And, you know, since then I've asked people from around different parts of the South, have you ever heard anyone referred to as Cooter Brown? They're like, yeah, usually when they're drunk.

And I was like, oh, man.

I just really wondered what the origin of that is and what the story is.

It was very, very gentle scolding.

Like if you were, you know, standing on your head, you know.