Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.
1
They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus.
2
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.
3
The Chigoe lays about sixty eggs, depositing them in a sort of sac on each side of the external opening of the oviduct.
1
Still more inconvenient, painful and annoying is another little pest called the chegoe.
2
A chegoe once lit upon the back of my hand; wishful to see how he worked, I allowed him to take possession.
3
My mother was famous for taking out chegoes, and she showed me the way she managed.
4
Every evening, before sundown, it was part of my toilette to examine my feet and see that they were clear of chegoes.
5
"Some chegoes have got into your feet, and if they are not taken out quickly they will cause you a great deal of suffering."
1
That's like a sand flea or something, right .
2
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.
4
Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move.
5
There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
1
We were under the orders of Admiral Hugon, "Le Pere la Chique," as the men called him.
1
The jigger-mast was cut in two and flew upward like a pipe-stem.
2
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.
5
It's a little jigger. He indicated the first joint of his thumb.
6
But he could not eliminate the man on the box-seat of the jigger-wagon.
7
Fill the glass with ice and pour over it a jigger of whisky.
8
The gunnery instructor shot it, and with a jigger we hauled it aboard.
9
The boats are arranged for wireless with foremast and jigger mast.
10
The jigger which he had been polishing lay on a chair close by.
11
At that moment a jigger-wagon rumbled to a halt near them.
12
Mayo was assigned to the jigger-mast, and went aloft to shake out the topsail.
13
He said he felt pains in his interior, and drank a jigger of whisky.
14
Her jib and jigger were both brailed at that instant.
15
There was one jigger who seemed to have learned to do nothing but boil.
16
If you think that a double jigger of gin, with a little lemon and-
