“A soldier was going over the top when one of his cootie friends bit him on the calf.”

“Just as he stooped, a shell whizzed over where his head would have been if he had not gone after the cootie.”

“The male candidates have asked for verification that Carly Fiorina has received her cootie shots prior to sharing the stage with her.”

“Hence if Balde were, well, bald as a coot, knobbly-kneed or of Bunteresque physique, he would duly be ridiculed for these signs of imperfection.”

“Sibelius was portrayed as a grim faced gentleman with mad, bulging eyes, bald as a coot.”

“I saw a single coot and lots of wood pigeons perched in the dead trees surrounding the lagoon.”

“Little turtles, like the red-eared slider or the Florida cooter, are unassuming and nice.”

“The slider and cooter, on the other hand, have a mixed diet, the cooter's being more heavily vegetarian.”

“So, ladies, if you wanna rob a bank but you don't want your cooter poked, head to beautiful Minnesota, land of ten thousand lakes.”

“In a matter of a couple of months, dating had taken me back to grade school when all boys were icky and cooties were a very real threat.”

“Every time her father used it, he'd bring it to a boil, which would kill the cooties.”

“That won't be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!”

“And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails.”

“Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species.”

“Apparently large numbers of ducks, coots and other waterbirds winter at the lake.”