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   cootie

   /ˈkuːti/

   noun

   • 1. a body louse: "it has to be laundered immediately in case of cooties and is then tossed directly into the ironing basket."
   • 2. a children's term for an imaginary germ said to have infected a person of the opposite sex or someone considered socially undesirable: US "he would run around the playground and chase me around and I thought he had cooties"

   Word Origin First World War: perhaps from Malay kutu, denoting a parasitic biting insect.

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

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   • E

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