Definition of Chegoes

1. chegoe [n] - See also: chegoe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chegoes

chef de partie
chef salad
chef salads
chefdom
chefdoms
chefed
cheffed
cheffing
cheffonier
cheffoniers
chefing
cheflike
chefs
chefs d'oeuvre
chegoe
chegoes (current term)
cheil-
cheilalgia
cheilectomy
cheilectropion
cheilion
cheilitis
cheilitis exfoliativa
cheilitis granulomatosa
cheilitis venenata
cheilo-
cheilocystidia
cheilocystidium
cheilognathoglossoschisis

Literary usage of Chegoes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1836)
"The Indian and negro wenches perform the operation of extracting chegoes with ... I was quite unconscious that there were nine thriving nests of chegoes in ..."

2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"After describing the chegoes (page 65), which, he says, are " no bigger than a mite that breeds in cheese," he says, " The Indian women have the best skill ..."

3. Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology by Charles Waterton (1839)
"... and, secondly, it acts as a kind of birch-rod to the unruly brats, by which they are warned, to their cost, not to conceal their chegoes in future: for, ..."

4. Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology by Charles Waterton (1844)
"I was quite unconscious that there were nine thriving nests of chegoes in my back, until one was accidentally observed by the old negro ; and this led to ..."

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