skeeter

Examples

• All

• We got us skeeters out here the size of footballs.

  Catch.44 (2011)

• These skeeters love tadpole ears.

  It Runs in the Family (1994)

• All you could hear besides the skeeter whine was us men chewing meat.

  Fiction book (1990)

• I am close by, but inside, keeping away from him, I can hear him muttering at the skeeters through the screen.

  Fiction book (1990)

• - And don't let the skeeters bite.

  Sullivan's Travels (1941)

• I done killed four ticks and swatted two of the biggest skeeters I ever saw.

  Fiction book (1994)

• A very fine mesh should resolve it, but it only takes one to get a whole lot of skeeters hatching.

  Blog text (25)

• Moved between Hog Key and Wood Key, hugging the Gulf breeze to keep off the skeeters.

  Fiction book (1990)

• She'd say, "Folks are always carrying on about how lonely it must be for womenfolk in those awful islands, rain and mud, and nothing but skeeters and sand flies to keep you company."

  Fiction book (1990)

• During summer nights, the skeeter buzzes around, making it hard to enjoy the outdoors.

Synonyms

M

mosquito

vsskeeter

70 1.0

A small flying insect whose female bites people or animals to drink blood

is an informal or regional word rather than the neutral insect name

M

mossie

vsskeeter

• Australian

9.5

A small flying insect that bites people and makes them itch

is informal and regional but not specifically Australian

G

gallinipper

vsskeeter

• Archaic

9.9

A very large mosquito common in the Southern United States

is an informal regional term for the insect generally not a large specific type

Compounds

S

skeeter hawk

• US

9.5

A long thin insect with bright wings that eats mosquitoes and does not sting

Surface Forms

Etymology