英语词汇chigger的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	chigger
词源	chigger. Both mites and fleas are called chiggers, the name deriving from the African jigger, for “a blood-sucking mite.” In fact, even in this country jigger is sometimes used. Chigger came to mean a flea as well as a mite because it was confused with the West Indian chigoe, for “a flea,” somewhere along the line.
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