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n. Slang A body louse.

n. A louse.

n. Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).

Rough-legged: an epithet applied to birds whose legs are clad with feathers.

n. a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings

"He wasn't called a cootie aboard ship, but he was the same bird."

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