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Definition of Cooties
1. cootie [n] - See also: cootie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooties
Literary usage of Cooties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kiltie McCoy: An American Boy with an Irish Name Fighting in France as a by Patrick Terrance McCoy (1918)
"So human and so democratic was he that the cooties made friends with him just as
multitudinously as they did with the most humble of us. ..."
2. The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous by Hugh Miller (1860)
"... Eose- markie Kaes" and "Cromarty cooties" — "The Danes,1' a Group of Excavations —
At Home in Cromarty — The Boulder clay of Cromarty " begins to tell ..."
3. History of the Twenty-ninth Division, "Blue and Gray," 1917-1919 by John Abram Cutchins, George Scott Stewart (1921)
"... —"cooties"—WE ARE ATTACHED TO THE SECOND ARMY FOR ITS ATTACK ON MET2. The words
of praise showered upon the division by higher commanders for the part ..."
4. Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York (1921)
"... CHAPTER V HUMAN cooties WHEN planning my adventure as Polly Preston, the
heroine of my proposed novel, the idea of including domestic service did not ..."
5. "That Damn Y": A Record of Overseas Service by Katherine Mayo (1920)
"... Chapter XVII cooties TO FEATHER BEDS Nor Nice alone, but Mentone, Monte Carlo,
and Cannes constituted the AEF Riviera Leave Area. ..."
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