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cooty

1 American  
[koo-tee] / ˈku ti /

noun

  • cooties
    plural
  1. cootie.


cooty 2 American  
[koo-tee] / ˈku ti /

noun

Scot.
  • cooties
    plural
  1. cootie.


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Noun Inflected Forms


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

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes

You would have cashed it fer sure this time, if it hadn't been fer a despised cooty; never again will yours truly be hard on 'em.

From Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie by Barney Stone

There's a fortune waiting for the one who compounds a louse eradicator that will kill the cooty and not irritate or nearly kill the one who uses it.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes

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

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes

So far as I know, it is the only thing sold that will do the cooty in.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes

Getting branded with cooties by those with the power to brand made you an outcast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

They walked past me as if I had cooties, or stared with disdain from inside the restaurant like I was a chupacabra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

She gives a high-five to a boy in her class even after it is established among her friends that boys have cooties.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2019

If he is responding with this level of paralysis and panic and terror and “Get your cooties away from me” every couple of months, there are guys out there who are not like that.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2017

The kids in that story were afraid they’d catch the cooties if they touched the old moldy cheese on the basketball court.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

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