cootie

The complicated microstructures that create the mirrors might, for instance, reduce the danger of cracks or fungal cooties.

Can you instruct someone how to make an origami ‘cootie catcher’ with just words?

About a year later, I wrote another piece for Slate with the headline, “ The Cootie Factor.”

They found that the underwear was indeed death to the cootie.

There I made my first acquaintance with the now justly famous "cootie."

The tale is even told of cootie fights during long, rainy winter evenings which must be spent indoors.

A woman of Iowa invented cootie-proof underclothing by impregnating underwear with vermin-destroying chemicals.

This was probably so there would be no chance of a stray cootie getting into our new outfit.