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 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

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