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Initially introduced as a bug - probably head lice, cooties are some form of horrid affliction that you can get by coming into contact with anyone of the opposite sex, or sometimes same sex, if they're gross. (i.e.: all gross people by definition have cooties.) So once established as an imaginary infestation on the playground, cooties have become to be associated almost exclusively with with girls (possibly because they traditionally have more hair for head lice to infest) although anyone of questionable hygene is subject to cootie ridicule. Either way, for boys the rule is "Stay away from girls, because girl have cooties". Infestation could be prevented by common measures like crossing your fingers (although in the US it wasn't called bargies) or simply by avoiding contact with infected persons(i.e. running away as fast as you can). Also you could receive a cootie immunization by the well known incantation and actions: "Circle, Circle, dot, dot, Now I have my cootie shot" (whilst drawing 2 circles on your forearm, and then poking it twice in the middle for the dot, dot part), I'm sure there is a lot more cootie lore out there. (ed: would love to hear it if you have some?)
n five-pence piece. Before the U.K.’s currency system was decimalised in 1971 and became simply “pounds and pence,” the Brits had “pounds, shillings and pence.” Like all crappy Imperial measures there wasn’t ten or a hundred of anything in anything and good riddance to the lot of it. In order to work out how to pay for anything you had to be able to divide by sixteen and nine tenths, subtracting room temperature. A “bob” was a shilling, and these days it’s still vaguely recognised as meaning five pence. Only vaguely, though.
The US measures penis length in inches, the rest of the world in centimetres. One inch is 2.54 centimetres. The US measures height in feet and inches, the rest of the world in centimeters.
medza/medzer/medzes/medzies/metzes/midzers
money. Other variations occur, including the misunderstanding of these to be 'measures', which has become slang for money in its own right. These slang words for money are most likely derived from the older use of the word madza, absorbed into English from Italian mezzo meaning half, which was used as a prefix in referring to half-units of coinage (and weights), notably medza caroon (half-crown), madza poona (half-sovereign) and by itself, medza meaning a ha'penny (½d). Potentially confused with and supported by the origins and use of similar motsa (see motsa entry).
money, late 20th century, most likely arising from misunderstanding medzas and similar variants, particularly medza caroon (hal-crown) and medza meaning a half-penny (ha'penny, i.e., ½d).
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A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
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Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
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One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.
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One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.
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An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
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The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
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To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.
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A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
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To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
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Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.
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Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
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Consisting of three poetical measures.
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Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
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Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures.
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A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
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The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like.
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Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
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A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
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One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.
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A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.
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