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

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

During World War I the cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one.

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