Summary: | garnipper These mosquitoes were of the kind called in Newfoundland _gallinippers_: they are a species of gnat, with long thin legs and a slender body, having a long trunk or proboscis, the end of which they insert into the skin, and suck blood till their bodies increase to three or four times their original size, becoming quite red and bloated. . the gallinipper with his sonorous hum hovers over you both by day and night, sailing about, banishing all sleep. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit DNE-cit G. M. Story June 1960 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I [see 'gallynippers', 'nippers', 'garnippers'
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