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cooties

coot·ie
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [koo-tee]
    • /ˈku ti/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [koo-tee]
    • /ˈku ti/

Definitions of cooties word

  • noun plural cooties a louse, especially one affecting humans, as the body louse, head louse, or pubic louse. 1
  • noun plural cooties a child's term for an imaginary germ or disease that one can catch by touching a person who is disliked or socially avoided: The girls at camp thought the boys had cooties. 1
  • abbreviation COOTIES cootie1 . 1
  • abbreviation COOTIES cootie2 . 1
  • noun cooties a wooden container, especially a wooden bowl, for storing or serving food or drink. 1
  • noun cooties Plural form of cootie. 1

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Origin of cooties

First appearance:

before 1910
One of the 15% newest English words
1910-15; perhaps < Malay kutu biting body louse, with final syllable conformed to -ie

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Parts of speech for Cooties

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

cooties popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 65% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for cooties

noun cooties

  • pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
  • vermin — noxious, objectionable, or disgusting animals collectively, especially those of small size that appear commonly and are difficult to control, as flies, lice, bedbugs, cockroaches, mice, and rats.
  • louse — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
  • ant — Ants are small crawling insects that live in large groups.
  • flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.

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