"Cooty. Lousy..." "in the Great War"

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Fri Jul 10 09:29:35 UTC 2009


"COOTY. Lousy; dirty." p. 345 in "English Army Slang as Used in The Great War,"
Notes & Queries 12 S. IX. Oct. 29, 1921, 341-8. (Ed. A. Forbes Sieveking, with
18 named contributors, members of The Times Staff who served in the war.)

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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