Crossword-Solution: GALLINIPPER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gallinipper | n. | A large mosquito. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “GALLINIPPER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Large mosquito | 1 answer |
| Mosquito | 11 answers |
| BITING insect | 16 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECEZMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GALLINIPPER (5)
Tobey, and we keeps the Gallinipper Laundry, sir, which is in Washington Place, being a very respectable neighborhood, though the prices is low owing to competition of a party across the street." "Now, Maggie," said the man, "let me talk." "Who's hindering you from talking, Tobey? I'm not, and that's certain.
Jayres scowled until it seemed as if his black eyebrows would meet his bristly upper lip, and then he said: "Bootsey, before you come to the office to-morrow morning you'd better go to the Gallinipper Laundry in Washington Place, and tell a man named Tobey who keeps it, that--er--that I've gone out of town for a few days, Bootsey, on a pressing matter of business." III.
Open the window and the place is full of them.” Mistaking the surprise he saw depicted in his hearer's face for terror, Darby launched forth into a description of insect and reptile tortures that might have suited the tropics; to hear him, all the stories of the white ant of India, or the gallinipper of Demerara, were nothing to the destructive powers of the Irish earwig.
Myriads of mosquitoes, the true blood-thirsty "gallinipper," loud-shouting drunken seamen, dogs howling, intolerable heat, which not even a tremendous thunder-storm that broke forth during the night could assuage,--such were some of the amenities of our reception, which, despite our exhaustion, utterly precluded sleep.
Every animal on the premises had sought refuge in the cane brakes from the ravages of the green-head fly and the gallinipper.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).