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Значения термина jigger на английском

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

A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey.

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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Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl.

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Examples for "chigoe"
Examples for "chigoe"
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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.
Sydney Smith
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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.
Little Journey to Puerto Rico / For Intermediate and Upper Grade...
3
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...
1
Still more inconvenient, painful and annoying is another little pest called the chegoe.
Wanderings in South America
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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.
Wanderings in South America
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My mother was famous for taking out chegoes, and she showed me the way she managed.
On the Banks of the Amazon
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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.
Wanderings in South America
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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."
On the Banks of the Amazon
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That's like a sand flea or something, right .
The incumbent
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What a family of sand fleas I come from!
Number9Dream
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I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday.
Imprudence
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Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move.
Rebel island
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There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
The old man and the sea
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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
Использование термина jigger на английском
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The jigger-mast was cut in two and flew upward like a pipe-stem.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
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Several jigger-sized whiskey bottles pillaged from the hotel's minibar littered the nightstand.
A Brewing Storm
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Crash the cull-downwith him-downwith him, before he dubs the jigger.
Pelham — Volume 08
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A jigger of brandy brought her to, gasping like a blessed mermaid.
The Iron Trail
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It's a little jigger. He indicated the first joint of his thumb.
Second Foundation
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But he could not eliminate the man on the box-seat of the jigger-wagon.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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Fill the glass with ice and pour over it a jigger of whisky.
Bohemian San Francisco / Its restaurants and their most famous r...
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The gunnery instructor shot it, and with a jigger we hauled it aboard.
From Lower Deck to Pulpit
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The boats are arranged for wireless with foremast and jigger mast.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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The jigger which he had been polishing lay on a chair close by.
The Clicking of Cuthbert
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At that moment a jigger-wagon rumbled to a halt near them.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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Mayo was assigned to the jigger-mast, and went aloft to shake out the topsail.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
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He said he felt pains in his interior, and drank a jigger of whisky.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
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Her jib and jigger were both brailed at that instant.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
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There was one jigger who seemed to have learned to do nothing but boil.
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan / As Told in the Camps of ...
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If you think that a double jigger of gin, with a little lemon and-
The Box with Broken Seals
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