chigger

UK: /ˈtʃɪɡə/ US: /ˈtʃɪgɚ/ ,(chig′ər)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

chig•ger /ˈtʃɪgɚ/   n. [countable]

1. Insects the six-legged, bloodsucking larva of a mite that lives on humans and other mammals.Also called harvest mite.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

chig•ger  (chig′ər), n. 

1. Invertebrates Also called harvest mite, redbug. the six-legged larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on humans and other vertebrates, sucking blood and causing severe itching and acting as a vector of scrub typhus and other infectious diseases.
2. Insects chigoe.

Also, jigger. 

• variant of chigoe 1735–45, American.

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chigger / ˈtʃɪɡə/ noun

1. Also called: chigoe, redbug the parasitic larva of any of various free-living mites of the family Trombidiidae, which causes intense itching of human skin
2. another name for the chigoe1