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What is a cootie?

What is a cootie? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (dated, British Army military slang) A louse.
  2. (Canada) A louse.
  3. (Canada) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
  4. (rare) A nest-building female American Coot (counterpart to cooter).
  5. (rare) A slang term for a sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
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We sat along the fence and told fortunes with paper we folded into cootie catchers.
Treatment Some regions treat cooties via use of cootie catchers, made of folded paper.
They found that the underwear was indeed death to the cootie.
Fortunately, these numbers represent a steep decrease from the epidemic scale of infection prior to the development of the cootie vaccine, which has drastically reduced outbreaks.
Risk of cootie infection remains high in the United States.
The worst thing about the cootie is that there is no remedy for him.

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