cooty

¹ American  

[koo-tee] / ˈku ti /

noun

plural

cooties

1. cootie.

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cooty ² American  

[koo-tee] / ˈku ti /

noun

Scot.

plural

cooties

1. cootie.

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Example Sentences

Of course some people are more at risk than others, but we all live in the same cooty swamp and need to take precautions appropriate to our individual situation.

From New York Times

Certain diving and swimming birds were called coots back in the 1300s, and those birds got lots of parasites, and so people started calling other things with parasites “cooty.”

From Time

I bent my head for'd to reach over on the back of my neck to pick him off, at one and the same time a sniper cut loose at me from a big tree just outside the line of Fritzies trenches; had my head been where it was before I started to get the cooty, it would have been fare-thee-well Barney, so I just put Mr. Lifesaver back, and, as before stated, I'm gonna put him on a penshun.

From Project Gutenberg

Any garment worn close to the body gets cooty in a few weeks and has to be ditched.

From Project Gutenberg

If it is possible to get a louse pomade called Harrison's in this country, send it, as it is a cooty killer.

From Project Gutenberg