I'm helping my neice with her homework (to kill a mockingbird)... and we are a little unsure as to what a Cootie is?
2006-08-27 02:16:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Someone has suggested they were head lice....
2006-08-27 02:21:05 · update #1
The one who knows.... well you are not just a pretty dimpled face after all, you are in fact quite right!
2006-08-27 02:31:42 · update #2
all these answers are wrong.In harper lees to kill a mockingbird a cootie is in fact a head louse.However lee is using the term cootie to refer to a blood sucking parasite.
musicman you are talking out of your ****.Have you ever read this book? or any other book for that matter.
2006-08-27 02:24:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Literally, body lice. Figuratively (on the playground), the kid everyone is mad at and doesn't want to play with "has cooties", ie is untouchable for whatever reason. To a 7 yr old boy, his female classmates have "cooties."
2006-08-27 04:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by anna 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a child's slang term for germs. Little boys and little girls wouldn't touch each other because they had cooties. It came about the time that boys and girls were starting to notice there were differences between them. Boys would play with other boys and girls would play with other girls. When the two would mix, invariably someone would touch and everyone would laugh and scream 'You got cooties'. Personally I think I was immune to cooties.
2006-08-27 02:29:54 · answer #3 · answered by sparkletina 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A cootie was a popular word used in the 60's meaning germs. The kind that were contageous.
2006-08-27 02:19:07 · answer #4 · answered by TMAC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's lice honey. Usually head lice, for adults it's
crabs.I am so sorry for my rude email. i regret it so much, you sound like such a sweetheart , forgive?
2006-08-27 05:11:45 · answer #5 · answered by Matt M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are lice. Sometimes, they were imaginary lice that you got from people you didn't like.
2006-08-27 02:23:06 · answer #6 · answered by notyou311 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it was originally a term for head-lice (bugs).
2006-08-27 02:21:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
head lice
2006-08-27 02:22:23 · answer #8 · answered by angelina_mcardle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A childs game made by Milton Bradley.
It was a bug you had to assemble.
2006-08-27 02:22:44 · answer #9 · answered by pukcipriavroc8v 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like imaginary germs that you get if you touch someone whom you and others feel is inferior; for example, creepy, nerdy, other race, other nationality, handicapped, ugly, unpopular, etc.
2006-08-27 02:21:34 · answer #10 · answered by R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋