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 the weirdest innovation of all is the "combat cootie."
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
It sounds comical now, but my classmates took cooties seriously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
They walked past me as if I had cooties, or stared with disdain from inside the restaurant like I was a chupacabra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
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
If he is responding with this level of paralysis and panic and terror and “Get your cooties away from me” every couple of months, there are guys out there who are not like that.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2017
“I jest got to make shore. If’n we bring cooties in here, or the seven-year itch, I ain’t go’n have no customers.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
