tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 04 13:46:00 1996
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Re: British Klingon! (Interview with Okrand)
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- Subject: Re: British Klingon! (Interview with Okrand)
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:45:27 -0400
96-09-03 19:26:34 EDT, jatlh charghwI':
> Then again, my Encyclopedic Oxford Dictionary (a rather Brittish tome)
> defines cootie: n. sl. a body louse. [perh. f. Malay kutu, a biting
> parasite].
>
> Which came first, I dare not venture, but it seems that you can't blame
> America for creating the word Cootie.
You must have missed my post on the 23rd:
<<<
Here's what Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition
(yes, one of those absolutely huge ones) says:
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coo'tie, n, [Brit. World War I army slang; said to be seaman's term from
Polynesian {kutu}, parasitic insect] a louse. [Slang.]
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>>>
When was the Cootie game created? (My cousins had that game when we were
kids, but I never did play it.)
SuStel
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