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noun • Mosquito verb • To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry. • To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering. • To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite. • To cause to have diarrhea. • To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement. | ||||
| 25% | 4 | Flying pest | ||
noun • any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies • (British usage) mosquito | ||||
| 25% | 8 | Pest flying low round contemptible person | ||
noun • two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | ||||
Flying Pest Slangily
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SKEETER which was last seen in the New York Times NYT crossword.
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