chigoe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
Definition of chigoe
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A small tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores.
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Etymology
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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