Crossword clues for cootie
cootie
- Nit-picking target
- Nit-picker's pick
- Milton Bradley game with one die
- Kids' game that might bug you
- Hasbro game that comes with 4 heads and 24 legs
- Contaminant for an elementary schooler
- Classic build-a-bug game
- "Germ" that's passed from one child to another
- "Bug" game
- ___ catcher (term for a child's fortuneteller)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"body lice," 1917, British World War I slang, earlier in nautical use, said to be from Malay kutu "dog tick."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated British Army military slang English) A louse. 2 (context North America colloquial English) A louse. 3 (context North America colloquial childish usually plural English) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children). 4 (context rare English) A nest-building female American Coot (counterpart to cooter). 5 (context rare English) A slang term for a sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
WordNet
n. a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings [syn: body louse, Pediculus corporis]
Wikipedia
Cootie can refer to:
- Head lice (slang)
- Cooties, a fictional disease which affects children in their early years
- The Game of Cootie, a game in which each player assembles a bug from plastic parts upon the roll of a die
- Beetle (game), the same game as above, played with pencil and paper
- Telegraph key, alternate name for a sideswiper manual telegraph key
- Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter
- Cooties (film), a 2014 film
- Military Order of the Cootie, Honor Degree within the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization
Usage examples of "cootie".
Try mixing Melt-O-Mobile gas and android cooties with outside air and see what you get.
Gas from the evaporated Melt-O-Mobile hung in the smoggy air like bad feelings and mixed with the cooties from the android ur-glop that had splashed on me.
She returned, and we continued the vet game and then played both Chutes and Ladders and Cootie.
Facing Shep, Dylan was also facing the magical portal behind Shep when the image of Jilly in the motel bathroom abruptly folded as though it were a work of origami in progress, like one of those tablet-paper cootie catchers that kids made in school for the purpose of teasing other kids: folded forward, folded around them, folded them up inside it, and folded away from California.
Don't you wish we were back in second grade so we could just give him cooties and that would be the end of it?
Even after millennia of wind erosion, which had pitted and scoured the once-smooth red walls, it still retained much of its original shape as when it had been carved out of a pre-existing mountain by the Cooties.