chigger
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪɡər/
- US
:
chigger
- After hiking in the woods, I found several chigger bites on my legs that made my skin itch intensely.
Examples
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Kids at school would get impetigo, but chiggers burrowed in and seemed much worse.
Fiction book (1995) -
I spent an entire humid morning wandering through neck-deep grasses and found only one tick and no chiggers.
Academic text (1995) -
So they do have chiggers in Paris, France.
Fiction book (1995) -
Am I really saying that I went to Paris to escape chiggers?
Fiction book (1995) -
Were there also chiggers in New York, simply covered over temporarily by concrete?
Fiction book (1995) -
From baking to fishing, I do it all and enjoy every minute of it... except the chiggers.
Blog text (26) -
Then you've never been bitten by a chigger.
Fiction book (1995) -
Chiggers are only in the Midwest and the South.
Fiction book (1995) -
I have spoken before about what my wife insists on calling my morbid fear of chiggers.
Fiction book (1995) -
Kicking their legs high against the night sky, trombones and drums and crickets, sitting in the bleachers and scratching chigger bites, the air thick with wood smoke.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
A tiny mite that bites people and makes their skin very itchy
A tiny creature that burrows into the skin and causes strong itching
A very small baby bug that bites people and makes red itchy bumps on the skin
A small mite whose young, called chiggers, bite skin and cause itchy welts
A family of tiny mites whose young bite people and make skin itchy
Compounds
A plant that lives for many years with bright orange flowers in the eastern and southern United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chigger probably comes from older words like chigoe or jigger that people in the Americas used for tiny biting insects, and those names may come from local languages. So a helpful way to remember chigger is to think of a very small 'chig' that bites your skin and makes it very itchy.