Crossword-Solution: CHIGGER 7 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Kazimoto had a million objections to offer against going alone on that errand, as, for instance, that the chigger fleas would invade our toe-nails disastrously without his cunning fingers to hunt them out again.

His acquaintances testified that he was industrious,--that is, he practised what in Havana passed for industry,--was fond of his wife, cared little for cock-fighting or the bull-ring, was of placid demeanor, and was altogether the sort of man who could be relied on _not_ to attend secret meetings or lose valued sleep by drilling in hot barns or chigger-infested clearings in the woods.

Various other names such as chigger-flea, sand-flea, jigger, chigger are also applied to this insect as well as to a minute red mite that burrows into the skin in much the same way as the female of the flea.

When the enterprising chigger is a-chigging And maturing his felonious little plan, He loves to climb the lingerie and rigging And tunnel into Annabel and Ann.

The chigger then with chloroform they smother, His little hour of pleasure then is o'er, So take this consideration with the other, A chigger's life is pretty much a bore.