Portuguese
bicho-de-pé 1
The jigger-mast was cut in two and flew upward like a pipe-stem.
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Several jigger-sized whiskey bottles pillaged from the hotel's minibar littered the nightstand.
3
Crash the cull-downwith him-downwith him, before he dubs the jigger.
4
A jigger of brandy brought her to, gasping like a blessed mermaid.
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It's a little jigger. He indicated the first joint of his thumb.
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I'd probably end up with chigger bites up the wazoo thanks to his latest stunt.
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She's from the South, you know, and they have a bug down there called a chigger.
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His skin was covered with the bumps of mosquito and chigger bites, some new, mostly old.
4
A chigger would starve to death out here.
5
Then she sat on him for several minutes, scratching at the chigger bites on his wet ankles.
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Still more inconvenient, painful and annoying is another little pest called the chegoe.
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A chegoe once lit upon the back of my hand; wishful to see how he worked, I allowed him to take possession.
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My mother was famous for taking out chegoes, and she showed me the way she managed.
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Every evening, before sundown, it was part of my toilette to examine my feet and see that they were clear of chegoes.
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"Some chegoes have got into your feet, and if they are not taken out quickly they will cause you a great deal of suffering."
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That's like a sand flea or something, right .
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What a family of sand fleas I come from!
3
I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday.
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Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move.
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There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
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We were under the orders of Admiral Hugon, "Le Pere la Chique," as the men called him.
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The causative agent, the female flea Tunga penetrans, burrows into the skin of its host, where it develops, produces eggs and eventually dies.
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The rats were exposed in the laboratory to the parasite or were kept in a natural environment with an intense transmission of Tunga penetrans.
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They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus.
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One enterprising and annoying insect, the chigoe, or "jigger," is able to bore a hole through the sole of a shoe and attack the foot.
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The Chigoe lays about sixty eggs, depositing them in a sort of sac on each side of the external opening of the oviduct.