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coontie
English
Etymology
From Creek [Term?].
Noun
coontie (plural coonties)
- Zamia integrifolia (syn. Zamia floridana), cycadaceous plants of Florida and the West Indies, or the starch (sago) produced from these plants.
Synonyms
- Florida arrowroot
References
- coontie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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cootie
English
Etymology
Probably from Malay kutu (“flea, louse”) (and/or Tagalog/Maori). First attested in English in 1917 as British army slang during World War I.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /?ku?ti/
Noun
cootie (plural cooties)
- (dated, British Army military slang) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
- 1921, L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
- "Tell Rilla I'm glad her war-baby is turning out so well, and tell Susan that I'm fighting a good fight against both Huns and cooties."
- "Mrs. Dr. dear," whispered Susan solemnly, "what are cooties?"
- Mrs. Blythe whispered back and then said in reply to Susan's horrified ejaculations, "It's always like that in the trenches, Susan."
- Susan shook her head and went away in grim silence to re-open a parcel she had sewed up for Jem and slip in a fine tooth comb.
- 1921, L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
- (Canada, US, colloquial, childish, usually in the plural) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
- I’m not drinking from his glass until I wash the cooties off it.
- (rare) A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
- (rare, slang) A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
Hyponyms
- (germ or contaminant): boy germ, girl germ
Derived terms
- cootie catcher
- crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug
Translations
See also
- lurgy
Scots
Etymology 1
Diminutive of cood possibly influenced by kittie (“a large washing-chamber”).
Noun
cootie (plural cooties)
- (obsolete) A wooden dish or tub for kitchen use.
References
- “cood” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Etymology 2
Possibly from coot (“ankle”).
Adjective
cootie
- Having feathers on the legs.
- a cootie hen
- 1876, Robert Burns, Tam Samson's Elegy:
- Ye cootie moorcocks
References
- “cootie” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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