Cooties
Cooties is a made up disease/infection that American kids often take very seriously. The opposite sex is the main carrier but infected individuals can also carry it. This disease is spread by being in close contact with an infected individual or by being touched by them. It is often made into a playground game where kids pass the cooties around. Something like a large game of tag but you are always playing. Kids who are different are often considered the ones who catch them it could be that the student is shy, has bad habits, and etc...
Cure:
Kids can immunize each other by doing the cooties injection, which typically consists of a classmate tracing a circle on another student's arm reciting, "Circle, circle, Dot, dot, – Now you've got the cootie shot!" There are also other variations of this injection, one in which it could affect you your whole life and another that spreads the infection over your whole body.
"Circle, circle, Square, square, – Now you have it everywhere!"
"Circle, circle, Knife, knife, – Now you've got it all your life!".
Kids outside of the U.S. and Canada don't know what cooties are but they have similar taunts or games. It is similar to the British dreaded lurgi and to terms used in the Nordic countries, in Italy, and in New Zealand.
Other Terms in different countries
Italy: la peste ("the plague")
Denmark: pigelus and drengelus (meaning Girl Lice and boy Lice)
Norway: jentelus and guttelus
Sweeden and Finland: tjejbaciller (literally "girl bacilli") and tyttöbakteeri ("girl bacteria"). In these two countries the term is mostly indicated towards girls.
Serbia: "šuga"
Kids outside of the U.S. and Canada don't know what cooties are but they have similar taunts or games. It is similar to the British dreaded lurgi and to terms used in the Nordic countries, in Italy, and in New Zealand.
Italy: la peste ("the plague")
Denmark: pigelus and drengelus (meaning Girl Lice and boy Lice)
Norway: jentelus and guttelus
Sweeden and Finland: tjejbaciller (literally "girl bacilli") and tyttöbakteeri ("girl bacteria"). In these two countries the term is mostly indicated towards girls.
Serbia: "šuga"
Origin:
The term original was used by the military to talk about lice.
The term original was used by the military to talk about lice.
As kids mature cooties turn into STD's or STI's
A seven-year-old will say "I can't hug her she has cooties".
Where a high schooler would say "I can't hang out with her haven't you heard she has a STI”.
In 2014 an action/horror movie was even based off the made of infection known as Cooties.
It received a review of 2.9/5.
Link 1:
https://dailymedicalexaminer.com/2014/02/12/scientists-confirm-cooties-real-and-highly-contagious/
Link 2:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coo2.htm
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