cootie
Example Sentences
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Many of these are visual: The sorting hat is depicted as an enormous cootie catcher, while butterbeer is represented by beer bottles with Land O’Lakes labels tacked onto them.
From Slate • May 17, 2018
Lice dancing: Shake, shake, shake, shake your cootie .
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2015
During World War I the cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the weirdest innovation of all is the "combat cootie."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Because there isn’t a cootie shot for nuggles.”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
