Cootie

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  • noun. A body louse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rough-legged: an epithet applied to birds whose legs are clad with feathers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A louse.
  • noun. Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
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  • noun. a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings
  • Word Usage
    "He wasn't called a cootie aboard ship, but he was the same bird."
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