Cootie is an English word with synonyms like louse. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cootie meaning
- A louse (Pediculus humanus).
- Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
- A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
Synonyms of Cootie
Using Cootie
- The main meaning on this page is: A louse (Pediculus humanus). | Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children). | A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
- Useful related words include: body louse, pediculus corporis, louse, sucking louse.
Context around Cootie
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cootie
- In this selection, "cootie" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 29.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, america, playing, forms, discovers, fun and catchers stand out and add context to how "cootie" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be about cootie bulshar and in america cootie discovers a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cootie" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cootie
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What was on everyone’s mind, of course, was how worried do our heroes have to be about Cootie Bulshar. (20 words)
From navigating his first awkward love and a wretched swamp monster label to the realities of being Black in America, Cootie discovers a world unlike anything he ever anticipated. (29 words)
In the US, letterboxes have developed new forms: ; Cootie : Much like a hitchhiker, except instead of being carried from letterbox to letterbox, a letterboxer passes it to another letterboxer. (29 words)
She’s an innovator in the sound of poetry but also in the material shape of the book or how words are presented to us, in card spirals, in cootie-catchers: poems like butterflies that open and shut. (38 words)
There’s a lot of facts about a Virgo, but the one that really stuck out to me was that sort of security in what they know, and it made playing Cootie fun. (33 words)
From navigating his first awkward love and a wretched swamp monster label to the realities of being Black in America, Cootie discovers a world unlike anything he ever anticipated. (29 words)
Example sentences (5)
From navigating his first awkward love and a wretched swamp monster label to the realities of being Black in America, Cootie discovers a world unlike anything he ever anticipated.
There’s a lot of facts about a Virgo, but the one that really stuck out to me was that sort of security in what they know, and it made playing Cootie fun.
She’s an innovator in the sound of poetry but also in the material shape of the book or how words are presented to us, in card spirals, in cootie-catchers: poems like butterflies that open and shut.
What was on everyone’s mind, of course, was how worried do our heroes have to be about Cootie Bulshar.
In the US, letterboxes have developed new forms: ; Cootie : Much like a hitchhiker, except instead of being carried from letterbox to letterbox, a letterboxer passes it to another letterboxer.