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boy cooties[edit]

When I was in elementary school, boy cooties were said to be less known, but more potent than girl cooties. Also, vaccinations were administered with a pinecone anointed with saliva. Benjamin (talk) 09:56, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to agree to disagree[edit]

On this point, I would have to say that cooties are real and highly contagious. The major cause of death used to be consumption. In recent years, in the US, lung cancer has been a major cause, even if setting in after an immune system has been compromised in a dying person.

Can you definitively prove that cooties do not exist. For 20 years, doctors stood behind SIDS, until it was finally found to be a brain stem defect, yet still insisted on putting babies to sleep on their backs even if it meant mommy and baby did not sleep for over 3 1/2 months, until mommy thought, "enough is enough."

When you travel to find in some areas that certain fields places are so tight-knit that certain places in certain field, not to mention any names, are at least fifty years in the dark ages, sometimes you have to use good old-fashioned home remedies that apparently are expected common emergency room visits where they don't know how to treat what is known to yourself as common emergency room reasons to visit, at least yester-year.

So, who is to say, imaginary or not. What is an actual cootie, anyway? Maybe, someday they will have a more scientific explanation for them.2604:2000:E94B:5C00:FD04:93A2:68C0:13AD (talk) 14:26, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Adding some other ways to protect against cooties.[edit]

So you can also cross your fingers. Lets say it's like a preventative measure. It's like quarantine to COVID-19. So yeah that's what is going on nowadays. It's annoyign to have toes or fingers crossed but at least you can talk normally to everyone. ∘ ∘

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Cooties are real[edit]

This page is apparently trying to say that body lice are imaginary. Sure if you grew up in a nice clean neighborhood and had good sanitation and went to school with other children that lived in nice clean neighborhoods and had good sanitation, you may have gotten the impression that cooties were something children just made up. They aren't. Yes, they are real and you can get them from other children. Body lice are all too well known to probably billions of people who aren't as fortunate as you.^[1] DrHenley (talk) 12:38, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Hu, Jane. "A Brief History of Cooties". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 8 April 2021.

Too pedantic[edit]

Cooties as we knew them going to school in the fifties or sixties had nothing to do with the board game or any previous use of the word, and only boys could get it. Our cootie shot was different and if you had every girl in the class give you one then it lasted a lifetime. All these variations might be expected but to connect the former grade school legend with all this other stuff is simply off the mark. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:7F40:0:D1C0:87A4:580C:9460 (talk) 19:04, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 16 March 2022[edit]

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Tiny change to third sentence in the first paragraph, adding the word "jentelus":

"... and to terms used in the Nordic countries (jentelus), ..."

Felt a bit weird that the sentence mentions terms used in Nordic countries but without giving an example/listing them.

Source to "jentelus" definition from a Norwegian dictionary: https://naob.no/ordbok/jentelus Jhkl4777 (talk) 22:47, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. It's already covered in the Other terms section. The lead is just a summary, so it doesn't need the specific words. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kudis - a Malay word that is closer to cooties[edit]

I think the word could have come from the Malay word 'kudis', and was picked up by the British in Malaysia.

It means, 'scabies' - an infectious skin diseases caused by mites. Pepper Lim (talk) 22:11, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[cootiesarereal-1] Hu, Jane. "A Brief History of Cooties". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 8 April 2021.

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