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UK
/tʃˈɪɡɐ/
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NOUN
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans
How To Use chigger In A Sentence
- And Billy dances off again in newer glee, while the inspired musician is plunking a banjo imitation on his enchanted instrument, which is unceremoniously drowned out by a circus-tune from Doc that is absolutely inspiring to every one but the barefooted brother, who drops back listlessly to his old position on the floor and sullenly renews operations on his "chigger" claims. The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
- Deet protects troops on the ground from mosquitoes, deer ticks, biting flies, chiggers, fleas and other insects.
- Various other names such as chigger-flea, sand-flea, jigger, chigger are also applied to this insect as well as to a minute red mite that burrows into the skin in much the same way as the female of the flea. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
- It's chigger season here, so i wore hip wader to avoid getting them while walking thru the underbrush. Trail Cams: A Sure Cure For Those Post-Vacation Blues
- He takes a eyedropper full of liquid vitamin B-12 every day during the summer and he doesnt have any problems with ticks, mosquitos, and chiggers. Tick season is almost here. A teen I know got Lyme disease last year. What do you do to repell ticks? more in 1st ans.
- Got chigger bites real bad one time while picking dewberries out behind the Shamrock movie theater in Houston. Dewberry cobbler is your reward | Homesick Texan
- Objective To understand the species, species distribution, the dominant species and their interspecies interaction of chigger mites on Eothenomys miletus(a dominant species of rats)in Yunnan.
- Michael and I spent two days, sometimes on hands and knees, in a chigger-infested jungle of pine and kudzu seeking vestiges of the Gudger shack.
- Did you ever paint your chigger bites with nail polish? Biting insects
- Although I have not subjected myself to all of these, the label says that Repel disgusts chiggers, fleas, mosquitoes, ticks, and sand fleas.
