cootie

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

cooties

1.
(British Army, Canada, US, colloquial, dated, slang)(dated, British Army military slang or Canada, US, colloquial) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
2.
(Australia, Canada, US, childish, colloquial, plural normally)(Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, childish, usually in the plural) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
I’m not drinking from his glass until I wash the cooties off it.
3.
(rare)A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
4.
(rare, slang)A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.

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cootie catchercrazy as a cootiecrazy as a cootie bugcrazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie buglurgy

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Nguồn gốc từ

Probably from kutu (flea, louse) (and/or -/-). First attested in English in 1917 as British army slang during World War I.