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[edit]![A tiny insect](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Harvest-mite-North_America.jpg)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪɡɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]From chigoe, likely from a Cariban language term such as Kari'na siko (“chigoe”) (early recorded variant chico), from Proto-Cariban *tikô.
Noun
[edit]chigger (plural chiggers)
- A chigoe (Tunga penetrans), a kind of flea found in tropical climates.
- A harvest mite (Trombiculidae spp.), a very small, red mite endemic to the Midwestern and Southeastern US, the infestation of which causes intense itching.
- 2024 July 25, Carly Stern, “It’s Chigger Season. Here’s What to Know About the Pests.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Dr. Lareau, an emergency medicine physician at Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital in Virginia, had seen these marks once or twice before on patients. She knew what had caused them. They were from chiggers, a species of tiny, reddish-brown mites able to leave bites that remain itchy for days or weeks.
Synonyms
[edit]- (mite): harvest mite
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]chigoe flea
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harvest mite
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]chigger (plural chiggers)
- (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) An East Asian person who behaves in ways similar to a stereotypical urban African American.
- 2007, James Boice, MVP: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 37:
- —He's not black, Stacia Jacobs who smelled like pee said. — He's yellow and black. He's a chigger. Do you know what a chigger is? It's a chink and a nigger.
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