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chegoe

chegoe is the dated form of chigoe.

Meaning of chigoe

Noun

chigoe (plural chigoes)

  1. A small tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores.

Forms of chegoe

pluralchegoes

Questions about chegoe

What is chegoe the dated form of?
Chegoe is the dated form of chigoe.

Words near chegoe in the dictionary

  1. chefwear
  2. Cheget
  3. Cheggers
  4. cheggie
  5. cheggies
  6. chegoe
  7. chegoes
  8. chegre
  9. chegres
  10. Chegwin
  11. Chegwins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chegoe (page history and authors); chigoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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