"Cooties" refers to a highly infectious disease. The word "cootie" derives from the Tagalog word "kutu," or "parasitic biting insect." The related word "kudis" translates to "playground death ...

The cooties concept has been evolving ever since. The most familiar incarnation has features of a real infectious disease even as it says a good deal about what 6-year-olds think of the opposite sex.

Remember playing cooties? We’d chase each other, touch the person and sing out, “I gave you my cooties!” Cooties may just be a good thing. In my column of a year ago, I quoted Dr. Stefano ...

We all know that cooties aren't real (besides, we've all been vaccinated as kids so we're safe). But if they were real, what disease would cooties be?

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“Cooties” is, at least, very well aware of how stupid it is, from its opening shots in a chicken processing plant, where a batch of assembly-line chicken nuggets become contaminated with a ...

Spearheaded by producer and star Elijah Wood, Cooties is a comedy that lives comfortably within the horror genre. So, like many other horror movies, will Cooties get a sequel?

The first 20 minutes or so of Cooties give off the false promise that we might be in store for the kind of giddy, gruesome satire that Joe Dante might have whipped up a couple of decades ago ...

Q:What exactly are cooties? I heard that term as a kid but never knew what they were. A: Cooties is another name for body lice. There are three types of lice that infest people. Head lice, which ...

Cooties was the term members of the military used in World War I to refer to the body lice that ravaged the soldiers, compounding the misery of the trenches and transmitting diseases like typhus.

See About archive blog posts. ‘By now, it’s clear I’ve got computer cooties,’ confesses Anti Records-signed, auctioneer-speed rapping Busdriver, on his first-ever mixtape, released this week.