gallinippern.
/ˈɡalɪˌnɪpə/ Chiefly U.S.
A large mosquito.
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1801 Port Folio (Philad.) 1 40/3 These Gallinippers..With monstrous paunches, and with wings of lace.
1818 Sporting Mag. 1 261 Smaller flies from the gallinipper to the moschetto, began to muster in all directions.
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. iii He jump'd up..a snappin' of his fingers, as if he wor bit by a galley-nipper.
1867 A. L. Adams Wanderings Naturalist India 59 That prince of gallynippers, the sandfly, whose bite produces a painful..swelling.
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