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
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 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
