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Cooties
Cooties is a fictional childhood disease, used in the United States of America and Canada as a rejection term and an infection tag game (such as Humans vs. Zombies). It is similar to the British dreaded lurgi, and to terms used in the Nordic countries, in Italy, and in New Zealand.〔 A child is said to "catch" cooties through close contact of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. Often the "infected" person is someone who is perceived as different, such as being of the opposite sex, disabled, or shy, or who has peculiar mannerisms. Usually the phrase is used by boys, as in "''now you've got girl cooties''". The phrase is most commonly used by children aged 3–10; however, it may be used by children older than 10 in a cruel, sassy, or playful way.
==Origin==
The word is thought to originate from the Austronesian languages, in which the Tagalog, Māori and Malay word ''kutu'' refers to a parasitic biting insect.〔Oxford English Dictionary〕 The earliest recorded uses of the term in English are by British soldiers during the First World War to refer to lice that proliferated in battlefield trenches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/got-cooties-try-p-d-q/ )〕
A hand-held game, the ''Cootie Game'', was made by the Irvin-Smith Company of Chicago in 1915; it involved tilting capsules (the cooties) into a trap over a background illustration depicting a battlefield. Other cootie games followed, all involving some form of bug or cootie,〔 until The Game of Cootie was launched in 1948 by Schaper Toys. The game was very successful, becoming an icon; in 2003, the Toy Industry Association included it on its "Century of Toys List" of the 100 most memorable and most creative toys of the 20th century.
In addition to the cooties games, the term ''cooties'' was popularised in America in the 1950s by military personnel coming back from service alongside the British in the South Pacific.〔〔 Like the British dreaded lurgi, the cooties game developed during the early 1950s polio epidemic, and became associated with dirt and contagion.〔
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