cootie
1or coot·y
a louse, especially one affecting humans, as the body louse, head louse, or pubic louse.
a child's term for an imaginary germ or disease that one can catch by touching a person who is disliked or socially avoided: The girls at camp thought the boys had cooties.
Origin of cootie
1Words Nearby cootie
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or coot·y
a wooden container, especially a wooden bowl, for storing or serving food or drink.
Origin of cootie
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How to use cootie in a sentence
The complicated microstructures that create the mirrors might, for instance, reduce the danger of cracks or fungal cooties.
Mirror beetles’ shiny bodies may not act as camouflage after all | Susan Milius | March 9, 2022 | Science NewsCan you instruct someone how to make an origami ‘cootie catcher’ with just words?
Can You Answer These 10 Oddball Job Interview Questions Asked at America’s Top Tech Companies? | Brian Ries | January 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAbout a year later, I wrote another piece for Slate with the headline, “ The cootie Factor.”
They found that the underwear was indeed death to the cootie.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellThere I made my first acquaintance with the now justly famous "cootie."
Average Americans | Theodore Roosevelt
The tale is even told of cootie fights during long, rainy winter evenings which must be spent indoors.
Down the Mother Lode | Vivia HemphillA woman of Iowa invented cootie-proof underclothing by impregnating underwear with vermin-destroying chemicals.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellThis was probably so there would be no chance of a stray cootie getting into our new outfit.
In the Flash Ranging Service | Edward Alva Trueblood
British Dictionary definitions for cootie
/ (ˈkuːtɪ) /
US and NZ a slang name for the body louse: Also called (NZ): kutu See louse (def. 1)
Origin of cootie
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