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gallinipper Chiefly U.S.|ˈgælɪˌnɪpə(r)|
Also gali-, gall(e)ynipper.
[Of uncertain origin.]
A large mosquito.
1818Sporting Mag. I. 261 Smaller flies from the gallinipper to the moschetto, began to muster in all directions. 1838Haliburton Clockm. Ser. ii. iii, He jump'd up..a snappin' of his fingers, as if he wor bit by a galley-nipper. 1867A. L. Adams Wand. Nat. India 59 That prince of gallynippers, the sandfly, whose bite produces a painful..swelling. |