gallinipper
[ gal-uh-nip-er ]
nounInformal.
any of various insects that sting or bite, especially a large American mosquito, Psorophora ciliata.
Origin of gallinipper
1First recorded in 1675–85; of obscure origin; final element apparently assimilated to nipper
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How to use gallinipper in a sentence
I am somewhat like a dish of toasted gallinippers—whether it is palatable or not depending very much in the way it is served.
You are bitten by mosquitoes and gallinippers, driven mad by clouds of sand-flies, and stung by scorpions and centipedes.
Letters of a Traveller | William Cullen Bryant
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