What is a cootie from To Kill a Mockingbird?

Answer 1

Cooties is a term for head or body lice. In the book TKAM, that is what they were talking about. In early days, a simple way to kill lice was to wash your hair with kerosene (PLEASE do not do this- it is VERY dangerous) If I recall, the book made reference to someone's hair "smelling of kerosene".

Those were REAL cooties. There are also imaginary cooties- where the term is used for an imaginary disease, usually carried by someone of the opposite sex. See Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, when they talk about catching "girl cooties" from Suzy. (Umm- IMAGINARY means no such thing- but don't tell Calvin- OK?)

Answer 2

In "To Kill a Mockingbird," a cootie is a slang term used by children to refer to an imaginary germ or bug that is supposedly passed through physical contact with someone else. It is used by the character Dill to explain why he ran away from home and came to Maycomb to live with his aunt.

Answer 3

Oh, dude, a cootie in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is like this imaginary germ or something that kids believe you can catch from the opposite sex. It's like their way of saying, "Ew, you have cooties!" It's not real, but hey, kids will be kids, right?

Answer 4

Burris Ewell, who is also allowed to school because his father, Bob Ewell is a Drunk.

Answer 5

No, Walter Cunningham, Jr. does not have "cooties". It is Burris Ewell who has cooties.

Answer 6

Burris Ewell