Shot, gassed and riddled with shrapnel, his father comes back from the Great War a cot-case who has to be nursed on the tribal lands by his wife through his fits and moods until he finally succumbs to his injuries at the age of 39.
Well you'd better not come here or you'll finish up a cot-case and I'll be a nervous wreck!
Financially, they are cot-cases.
He has now been telling Australia and the world that we are an economic cot-case.
1.1A person who is incapacitated by alcohol.
醉鬼
Example sentencesExamples
There are plenty of highly intelligent individuals who are functional cot-cases.
1.2An eccentric or mad person.
怪人；疯子
Example sentencesExamples
It takes a certain kind of nerdy, self-obsessed cot-case to join.