A soldier was going over the top when one of his cootie friends bit him on the calf.
The fresh underthings had been boiled and sterilized, but the immortal cootie had come through unscathed and in all its vigor.
The worst thing about the cootie is that there is no remedy for him.
Some of the cootie stories have become classical, like this one which was told from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
After that comes the "cootie carnival", better known as the "shirt hunt.
He wasn't called a cootie aboard ship, but he was the same bird.
Susan thinks that name is not quite decent, so I suggested she call them 'cootie sarks,' which is old Highland Sandy's version of it.
She was especially horrified when Jem wrote in his last letter to mother, 'Tell Susan I had a fine cootie hunt this morning and caught fifty-three!
In the city the doughboy found the steaming bahnya or bathhouse, and at the "cootie mill" turned in his shirt to rid himself of the "seam squirrels.
Official Photo "Cootie Mill" Operating at Smolny Annex of Convalescent Hospital [Illustration: Two men with a horse pulling a plow.
But the cootie in the front line trenches was not altogether an enemy.
This was probably so there would be no chance of a stray cootie getting into our new outfit.
I wouldn't speak to the cootie again if you paid me!
You know perfectly well that Underhill's a cootie of the most pronounced order, and that, when he found out that Jill hadn't any money, he chucked her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cootie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.