What are cooties?

Answer 1

cooties are aids and sars combined

Answer 2

Cooties
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Cooties is a slang word in American English, used by children, referring to a fictional disease. Cooties are believed to be a highly contagious disease or condition, generally carried by members of the opposite gender. One supposedly catches cooties through any form of bodily contact, close proximity, contact with an "infected" person's possessions, or third-party transmission. In prepubescent children it serves as a device for enforcing gender separation. An older person may jokingly refer to cooties when talking about awkwardness toward sex and relationships. An alternative account of the adoption of the term into English traces it back to the American occupation of the Philippines, in 1898-1945. In most (Malay-derived) Philippine languages the term for head lice is "kuto"; American troops in the Philippines had ample opportunity to become familiar with the species, and quickly adopted local terminology.

Originally, the term implied body lice, but over time this became generalized to any sort of lice, including head lice. The term then evolved into a purely imaginary stand-in for anything that is considered repulsive. In British English the term lurgy may be used in the same context. However, lurgy has a broader definition and the two concepts are not necessarily equivalent.

Answer 3

Cooties is a slang word in American English, used by children, referring to a fictional disease. Cooties are believed to be a highly contagious disease or condition, generally carried by members of the opposite gender. One supposedly catches cooties through any form of bodily contact, close proximity, contact with an "infected" person's possessions, or third-party transmission. In prepubescent children it serves as a device for enforcing gender separation. An older person may jokingly refer to cooties when talking about awkwardness toward sex and relationships.

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Answer 4

it's nothing. It's just something kids say between like ages 6 to 10 or 11 for some reason. So if someone tells you that you have cooties, don't panic!!!

Answer 5

cooties is what little kids called the other gender when they touched them they would "ewwwwwwww boy cooties" or ewwwwww girl cooties
so i guess there like germs lol

but there not real of course

Answer 6

Cooties have become a term for ficticious germs. In reality, they are a term for head or body lice.

Answer 7

They are little plastic statues of bugs that you put together in a game called Cootie.

They are also a generic term for "creepy things I might get from touching you."

I think the term was originally for lice.

Answer 8

HUH? Like when your young and you're afraid of boys (if youre a girl) or a girl (If youre a boy)? Well if so, then that's when little kids think that the opposite gender have germs. If youre a parent, that's pretty good; youre kids don't LIKE other kids.LOL

Answer 9

sorta like green moving slime that sneaks around ya house threw the nite while your sleeping, if you have cooties, watch your pets if you have small ones, coz cooties like em for snacks

Answer 10

Cooties are actually fake. It is when you are like afraid of the other gender or something like that.