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

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

But to millions of Germans today as to other millions in many of history's wars, the cootie means horror and death in the form of typhus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The so-called cootie garages, which Anne and Ernestine now detested, had been the style several years before, and still were worn by girls who hadn’t bobbed their hair.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey