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chigoe

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɡoʊ/Part of speech nounSorted ceghioStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans

Word origin

Uncertain. Possibly from a Cariban language term such as Kari'na siko (“chigoe”) (early recorded variant chico), from Proto-Cariban *tikô, or else a West African borrowing such as Wolof or Yoruba jiga (“insect”). The eighteenth century historian Charlevoix refers to them as chique in his 1730 history of Hispaniola.

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