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cooty

cooty adjective: afflicted with body lice or coots. Also the alternative spelling of cootie.

Adjective

cooty (comparative cootier, superlative cootiest)

  1. (slang) Afflicted with body lice or coots.

Also used as

cooty is also the alternative spelling of cootie.

Forms of cooty

Adjective
comparativecootier
superlativecootiest
Noun
pluralcooties

Origin of cooty

From coot + -y.

Questions about cooty

What does cooty mean?
Cooty means afflicted with body lice or coots.
What part of speech is cooty?
Cooty is an adjective.

Words near cooty in the dictionary

  1. cootling
  2. cootlings
  3. Cootralantra
  4. coots
  5. Cootub
  6. cooty
  7. Cooum
  8. Coover
  9. cooverexpressed
  10. cooverexpression
  11. Cooverian

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