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
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
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
“He shouldn’t have called me no farm boy. If he calls me a farm boy, I’m gonna call him a cootie again.”
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
It sounds comical now, but my classmates took cooties seriously.
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
The kids in the front row follow her orders, one boy grumbling under his breath that he didn’t have cooties the last time he checked.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
