chigger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chigoe (Tunga penetrans), a kind of flea found in tropical climates.
  2. An East Asian person who behaves in ways similar to a stereotypical urban African American. US,derogatory,ethnic,offensive,slang
    — —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.
  3. A harvest mite (Trombiculidae spp.), a very small, red mite endemic to the Midwestern and Southeastern US, the infestation of which causes intense itching.
    — 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.

词形变化

chiggers plural chiggers plural chigga alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
chigger weed

词源

词源 1
From chigoe, likely from a Cariban language term such as Kari'na siko (“chigoe”) (early recorded variant chico), from Proto-Cariban *tikô.
词源 2
Blend of chink + nigger.
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