Non English-Speaking Dopers: Does Your Language Have An Equivalent To "Cooties"?

[Leaffan]

@TBG

Cooties aren’t imaginary, even if the kids don’t know what it really means or use it correctly. Someone with cooties simply is the same thing as someone with lice.

:dubious: I don’t think so.

[Ken001]

I’m only vaguely familiar with the term “cooties” and always assumed it meant head lice.

[Didactylos]

In danish theres ‘tøselus’, ie girl-lice, except tøs is more like ‘chick’ or ‘lass’.

[Nava]

@jsc1953

I don’t know if you did it intentionally, but since nits are lice larvae, “nitpicking” is literally lice removal. [/pedant]

Well, what I did intentionally was stopping before pointing that one out