Cooties

I'm willing to bet that almost everybody reading this has at some point in their childhood teasingly accused someone of giving them 'cooties' - or has been on the other end, as the one being accused. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The U.S. "cooties" policy with respect to Hamas is going to look quite silly in the region after the "cooties" policy with respect to the Muslim Brotherhood has been dropped, and there seems little prospect that a democratically elected Egyptian government will collaborate with such a "cooties" policy, with or without the Muslim Brotherhood. ❋ Robert Naiman (2011)

I doubt someone will steal it once you've marked it with your "cooties". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your immune system isn't strong enough to fight off all the "cooties" floating around in the massive crowds that follow you guys everywhere you go. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Companies selling food products may need to worry about their goods catching "cooties" by coming in contact with certain other products, such as lard and feminine napkins, in shoppers 'carts or on store shelves. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Aquaman is a man of action, and The Atom is a little more cautious, leading to a moment where The Atom explains a scientific theory in the same tone he would talk to a child with ADD, even going so far as to referring to the diseased cells as "cooties": ❋ Rob! (2009)

Heck, the biggest think you have to worry about in Kindergarten is catching "cooties" from the girls! ❋ Mrbradley (2000)

We were as clean as could be and fairly free of "cooties" at the end of a week, but official red tape demanded that we go through an authorized scouring. ❋ Robert Derby Holmes (N/A)

We twisted and turned, but the first ones to waken, tried to keep quiet, and it was not till every one was on the move that we realized that we had made our first acquaintance with the worst pest in the Army -- body lice, or "cooties" as they call them -- the straw on which we were lying was fairly alive with the little beasts. ❋ Jack O'Brien (N/A)

There is no doubt about it that, although we get used to the "cooties," yet sometimes they outnumber us and it is necessary to put a gas attack over on them. ❋ Harold Reginald Peat (1926)

But she shook her head and I heard her telling mother later that, in her opinion, 'cooties' and 'sarks' were not proper subjects for young girls to talk about. ❋ Lucy Maud (1921)

From that time on my friends the "cooties" were constantly with me. ❋ Arthur Guy Empey (1923)

At first we tried to drown the "cooties," but they also seemed to enjoy the bath. ❋ Arthur Guy Empey (1923)

One sunny day in the front-line trench, I saw three officers sitting outside of their dugout ( "cooties" are no respecters of rank; I have even noticed a suspicious uneasiness about a certain well-known general), one of them was a major, two of them were exploring their shirts, paying no attention to the occasional shells which passed overhead. ❋ Arthur Guy Empey (1923)

The "cooties" take advantage of this order and mobilize their forces, and Tommy swears vengeance on them and mutters to himself, "just wait until I hit rest billets and am able to get my own back." ❋ Arthur Guy Empey (1923)

After feeding the boys, I began to scratch, for I was infested with what the boys now call "cooties" but we called "gray-backs." ❋ Unknown (1923)

"Oh no here comes [Suzy], Quick guys into our anti [cootie] [suits]" ❋ Reclaimer (2003)

[ahhh]!!! [clay] [gave] me the cooties!! ❋ Blehmonster (2007)

[Mario] "She has cooties" [The bro] "Her [estrogen] levels must be high" ❋ Supermariobro22 (2015)

Don't [Make me] [give] you cooties! ❋ Jl32194 (2010)

[Little Boy]: Will you be [my valentine]? [Little Girl]: Eww, no way! You probably have cooties anyway. ❋ Light Joker (2004)

[holy shit] [that person] has cooties[yea] ❋ MarilIgosk99 (2022)

"[Bug off], [Susie]! [I don't] want your cooties!" ❋ Gahmuret (2006)

[My little girl] was six years old, when she came home one-day and had gotten the (COO-TIES)from a little boy, she like at school. My little girl said she only played with the little boy [at recess] and in the classroom. She always would say he was cute and now she has the [Cooties]! ❋ Mrs 2 Click (2008)

Girl: "Ew, [Susie] got cooties from [Timmy]!" [Friend's] response: "Again?!" ❋ B_bold (2009)

[OMG]! he has the cooties! [EW] ❋ Ladeela (2009)