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Meanings of chigger in English

Portuguese
bicho-de-pé

A flea of the species Tunga penetrans of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, especially of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs.

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bicho-de-pé

Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.

Usage of chigger in English
1
I'd probably end up with chigger bites up the wazoo thanks to his latest stunt.
Calamity jayne
2
She's from the South, you know, and they have a bug down there called a chigger.
The incumbent
3
His skin was covered with the bumps of mosquito and chigger bites, some new, mostly old.
The stand
4
A chigger would starve to death out here.
Lonesome dove
5
Then she sat on him for several minutes, scratching at the chigger bites on his wet ankles.
Lonesome dove
6
Cut it out, chigger-head.
Wastelands
7
I caught a chigger on its way up my pant leg, heading for my balls; I felt proud to have rescued them.
Rogues
8
No bites from the chiggers or flies or midges or mites.
Blood and Bone
9
Mosquitoes and chiggers pounced and burrowed into my arms and legs.
Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
10
I voiced the words: "Councilman Chigger." My indignation washed away with laughter.
The incumbent
11
It has ticks; chiggers and nats all open fur biz at one and the same time.
Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie
12
I think there's chiggers under here.
We are all welcome here
13
Midges and chiggers feasted upon him.
Dancer’s Lament
14
'This type of chigger whose larvae are gnawing everyone's flesh?
Blood and Bone
15
Bill led them up the dry bank and back into the heavy shrubbery, where bugs whirred and chiggers chigged.
IT
16
The chiggers gave exquisite torment.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
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Translations for chigger
Portuguese
bicho-de-pé
Chigger through the time