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Updated: June 10, 2025
In the city the doughboy found the steaming bahnya or bathhouse, and at the "cootie mill" turned in his shirt to rid himself of the "seam squirrels." All cleaned up, with little gifts and cheery words he sought his buddies who were in hospital sick or wounded. He got books and records and gramaphones and other things at the Red Cross and "Y" to take back to the company.
I always feel a sense of Oriental luxury, as though I had bought a new rug, when Stella turns on me the slumberous midnight of her eyes. I am enamored of the piled black shadows of Stella's hair, even as displayed in the somewhat extreme cootie garages which, in the vernacular of the A. E. F., indicate the presence of her ears.
The soldier reached down and captured the biter. Just as he stooped, a shell whizzed over where his head would have been if he had not gone after the cootie. Holding the captive between thumb and finger, he said: "Old feller, I cawn't give yer the Victoria Cross but I can put yer back." And he did. The worst thing about the cootie is that there is no remedy for him.
Applied to anything and everything. Bomb A hand grenade. Bully beef Corned beef, high grade and good of the kind, if you like the kind. It sets hard on the chest. Carry on To go ahead with the matter in hand. Char Tea. East Indian derivation. Chat Officers' term for cootie; supposed to be more delicate. Click Variously used. To die. To be killed. To kill.
Between 11.30 and noon he is dismissed, has his dinner, and is "on his own" for the remainder of the day, unless he has clicked for a digging or working party, and so it goes on from day to day, always "looping the loop" and looking forward to Peace and Blighty. Sometimes, while engaged in a "cootie" hunt you think.
So there were times when the cooties were really friends and they kept our minds and hands occupied. After the bath, we were taken back to the ward and were not allowed to have any clothes for three days. This was probably so there would be no chance of a stray cootie getting into our new outfit.
There is an advantage in having fleas on you instead of "cooties" in that in one of his extended jumps said flea is liable to land on the fellow next to you; he has the typical energy and push of the American, while the "cootie" has the bull-dog tenacity of the Englishman, he holds on and consolidates or digs in until his meal is finished. There is no way to get rid of them permanently.
You're dying right now to ask why I wear my hair in braids down my back instead of in cootie coops over my ears." "I don't give a hang," said Donald ungallantly, "as to how you; wear your hair, but I am coming Saturday to fight, and I don't think Mother will take any greater interest in the matter than to know that I am going to do battle with a daughter of Doctor I Strong."
At least there was no disgrace attaching to a refusal. "Kip" in this case meant closing our eyes and dozing. I sat humped up in my original position through the night. There wasn't room to stretch out. Along toward morning I began to itch, and found I had made the acquaintance of that gay and festive little soldier's enemy, the "cootie."
The greatest shock a recruit gets when he arrives at his battalion in France is to see the men engaging in a "cootie" hunt. With an air of contempt and disgust he avoids the company of the older men, until a couple of days later, in a torment of itching, he also has to resort to a shirt hunt, or spend many a sleepless night of misery.
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