cootie (plural cooties)
(dated, British Army military slang) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
(North America, colloquial) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
(North America, colloquial, childish, usually, in the plural) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
(rare) A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
(rare, slang) A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
• (germ or contaminant): boy germ, girl germ
Source: Wiktionary
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
