Usage of "redbug" | TermGallery

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

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Examples for "jigger"

The jigger-mast was cut in two and flew upward like a pipe-stem. 
 The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet 

Several jigger-sized whiskey bottles pillaged from the hotel's minibar littered the nightstand. 
 A Brewing Storm 

Crash the cull-downwith him-downwith him, before he dubs the jigger. 
 Pelham — Volume 08 

A jigger of brandy brought her to, gasping like a blessed mermaid. 
 The Iron Trail 

It's a little jigger. He indicated the first joint of his thumb. 
 Second Foundation 

I'd probably end up with chigger bites up the wazoo thanks to his latest stunt. 
 Calamity jayne 

She's from the South, you know, and they have a bug down there called a chigger. 
 The incumbent 

His skin was covered with the bumps of mosquito and chigger bites, some new, mostly old. 
 The stand 

A chigger would starve to death out here. 
 Lonesome dove 

Then she sat on him for several minutes, scratching at the chigger bites on his wet ankles. 
 Lonesome dove 

Meanings of redbug in English