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Definition of Mosquito bite
1. Noun. A sting inflicted by a mosquito.
Definition of Mosquito bite
1. Noun. The result of a mosquito bite; characteristically a visible bump of inflamed skin, together with a sensation of irritation (itchiness). ¹
2. Noun. (context: less commonly) The event of a mosquito bite. ¹
3. Noun. (context: usually plural slang potentially offensive) A small breast on a woman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosquito Bite
Literary usage of Mosquito bite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... little ministers, little editors, and little politicians, can inflict the
mosquito bite, not deep, but stinging; — who wonders that the serener and the ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1901)
"... no other ways of acquiring malaria than through mosquito bite ; and, are there
not other sources of mosquito infection than man or other vertebrate ? ..."
3. Handbook of Medical Entomology by William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1915)
"teristic itching irritation of the mosquito bite; and in a short time there ...
This was usually much more severe than after the usual mosquito bite, ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1882)
"Mosquito-Bite.—The following observations on the bite of the stinging gnat, so
common and troublesome in the tropics and warm countries generally, ..."
5. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... little ministers, little editors, and little politicians, can inflict the
mosquito bite, not deep, but stinging; — who wonders that the serener and the ..."
6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1901)
"... no other ways of acquiring malaria than through mosquito bite ; and, are there
not other sources of mosquito infection than man or other vertebrate ? ..."
7. Handbook of Medical Entomology by William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1915)
"teristic itching irritation of the mosquito bite; and in a short time there ...
This was usually much more severe than after the usual mosquito bite, ..."
8. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1882)
"Mosquito-Bite.—The following observations on the bite of the stinging gnat, so
common and troublesome in the tropics and warm countries generally, ..."
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