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[coothead]

Hi there mmi,

my "Concise Oxford Dictionary" has this definition..

cootie n. sl. a body louse [perh. f. Malay kutu a biting parasite]

This edition, I have to admit, is over twenty years old and therefore
prior to Bart's discovery of the cooties' exact whereabouts.

coothead

[mmi]

The term presumably was brought to the West by Western sailors and/or soldiers who had traveled to Polynesia, the Philippines, or Malaya. From its original meaning of head or body lice, it seems to have evolved into a purely imaginary stand-in for anything contagious and repulsive. —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooties

Yes, I corrected the grammar on that Wiki page, changing the verb to make it a sentence rather than a fragment, and replacing "the term" with "it" in the last sentence to improve readability. Hey, gotta keep makin' the world safe for democracy,

I missed the episode where Bart faked an engagement to "Lotta Cooties" to get weddings gifts he could return for store credit.

Homer: It's not all your fault. All these years I've watched you turn our son into a time bomb and yet I did nothing. So in a way, I too am a victim. Of you!