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▪ I. ˈcootie, n.1 Sc.
Also coodie, cudie.
A wooden kitchen dish, a small wooden bowl or basin.
1785Burns Addr. to Deil i, Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick or Clootie Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie..Spairges about the brunstane cootie, To scaud poor wretches.
▪ II. cootie, n.2 slang.|ˈkuːtɪ|
Also kootie.
[? f. Malay kutu parasitic biting insect.]
A body louse.
1917Empey From Fire Step 24 ‘Does the straw bother you, mate? It's worked through my uniform and I can't sleep.’ In a sleepy voice he answered, ‘That ain't straw, them's cooties.’ 1918in F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) 199, I could soon fall asleep thinking how absurd to worry over lice and cooties when a man was at war. 1918E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 106, I made the acquaintance of a new sport while with the battery. A saucer serves for an arena. Into this one puts a kootie and a flea. 1934J. A. & A. Lomax Amer. Ballads (1960) 559 The cootie is the national bug of France. 1962R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization 41 The Publicitor's cheap brand of lacquer Only stuck to some cooties and fleas.
▸ orig. U.S. A contagious germ; esp. (chiefly Children's slang) an imaginary germ with which a socially undesirable person, or one of the opposite sex, is said to be infected. Usu. in pl.
1967B. Cleary Mitch & Amy iii. 51 Quit breathing on it... We don't want any of your cooties in the pudding. 1973Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 86 135 A child who is habitually referred to as ‘having cooties’ is likely to be the poorest, dirtiest, most psychologically troubled child in the classroom... In a New Hampshire school, the boys had the ‘cooties’ and chased the girls. 1994Lang. in Society 23 421 Chasing games, where the person caught and touched got cooties..revolve around the unfortunate girls labeled as ‘cootie queens’. 2001Backpacker (Electronic ed.) Sept. 28 Untreated water works fine for hand washing because the soap, scrubbing, rinsing, and drying process removes cooties, even those in the water.
▪ III. ˈcootie, cooty, a. Sc.
[f. coot n.2 ankle + -y.]
Having legs clad with feathers.
1787Burns Tam Samson's Elegy vii, Ye cootie moor⁓cocks, crousely craw. 1814Train Mountain Muse 49 The cooty cock ahint the door Did clap his wings and craw. |