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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːti/

Definition 1:
• A louse (Pediculus humanus).
Labels: government, military, politics, war, British-Army, Canada, US, colloquial, dated, slang

Definition 2:
• Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
Example: I'm not drinking from his glass until I wash the cooties off it.
Labels: Australia, Canada, US, childish, colloquial, plural-normally

Definition 3:
• A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
Labels: rare

Definition 4:
• A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
Labels: rare, slang

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cootie