Usage of "jigger flea"

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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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 

They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. 
 Sydney Smith 

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. 
 Little Journey to Puerto Rico / For Intermediate and Upper Grade... 

The Chigoe lays about sixty eggs, depositing them in a sort of sac on each side of the external opening of the oviduct. 
 Our Common Insects / A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fie... 

Still more inconvenient, painful and annoying is another little pest called the chegoe. 
 Wanderings in South America 

A chegoe once lit upon the back of my hand; wishful to see how he worked, I allowed him to take possession. 
 Wanderings in South America 

My mother was famous for taking out chegoes, and she showed me the way she managed. 
 On the Banks of the Amazon 

Every evening, before sundown, it was part of my toilette to examine my feet and see that they were clear of chegoes. 
 Wanderings in South America 

"Some chegoes have got into your feet, and if they are not taken out quickly they will cause you a great deal of suffering." 
 On the Banks of the Amazon 

That's like a sand flea or something, right . 
 The incumbent 

What a family of sand fleas I come from! 
 Number9Dream 

I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday. 
 Imprudence 

Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move. 
 Rebel island 

There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas. 
 The old man and the sea 

We were under the orders of Admiral Hugon, "Le Pere la Chique," as the men called him. 
 Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville 

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