Lexicographical Neighbors of Chegoes
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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