cootie
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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
Given the thankless task of watching over troops on leave, rounding up stragglers during battle, the Military Police got in the soldiers' hair as incessantly as the cootie.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the Western Front, thanks to frequent delousing and other precautions, the cootie seldom brought anything worse than a comparatively mild infliction called trench fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
He’d heard the word so often—mostly from Maria—he’d thought it was only a swear word, like dumdum or cootie face.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
By tacit agreement, everything Charles did or didn’t do was definitionally something someone with cooties would or wouldn’t do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
These longterm friends suddenly act like the other has cooties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Tucker either isn’t one to let an international viral scare spoil any party she’s throwing, or she figured her product has enough proof to kill any Coronavirus cooties.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2020
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
Scourin’ floors, washin’ win-ders and curtains, and scrubbin’ furniture like they’s cooties or bedbugs in ever piece.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
