Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chigoe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
chigoe .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Dated form of
chigoe .
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Examples
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It is a curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity, in the same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the nigua or chegoe (Pulex penetrans).
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As soon as you perceive that you have got the chegoe in your flesh, you must take a needle or a sharp-pointed knife and take it out.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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The discoloured part turns out to be the nest of the chegoe, containing hundreds of eggs, which, if allowed to hatch there, the young ones will soon begin to form other nests, and in time cause a spreading ulcer.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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After removing the nest it is well to drop spirit of turpentine into the hole: that will most effectually destroy any chegoe that may be lurking there.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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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 Charles Waterton 1823
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Still more inconvenient, painful and annoying is another little pest called the chegoe.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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It is a curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity, in the same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the nigua or chegoe (Pulex penetrans).
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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