Definitions
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- noun Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.
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- noun obsolete Some kind of
stinging orbiting insect ; aflea ,gnat ,sandfly , or the like.
Etymologies
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Latin scinifes, cinifes or ciniphes, plural, from Ancient Greek σκνίψ (sknips, "gnat, small fly(, flea?)"), plural σκνῖφες (skniphes) or σκνῖπες (sknipes).
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