midge
midge
Definition
midge (mij)
noun
any of various families (esp. Chironomidae) of small, two-winged, gnatlike dipteran insects, including the gall midges and biting midges
Etymology: ME migge < OE mycg, akin to Ger mücke < IE base *mu-, echoic for fly, gnat > L musca, a fly
midge
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- bite: There are 34 known species of biting midges in Scotland only 5 of these species attack humans.
- catch: The bags are used for catching midges once they have been sucked into the machine.
- keep: They do tend to be windy, which in defense does keep the midges down.
- avoid: During the summer they remain on hilltops to avoid midges.
Preposition: at
- bay: The one bit of his brain still working remembered that the one thing to keep midges at bay is chili.
Converse of subject
- eat: Knackered if you kept going, but eaten by the midges if you stopped.
Adjective modifier
- biting: Clouds of biting midges can turn a pleasant walk into an ordeal.
- dreaded: Only downside of this lazy warm summer paddling is the dreaded midge.
- Scottish: These little insects are comparable in the desire for human flesh to Scottish midges.
- female: Only the female midges bite to feed their eggs.
- few: Once in the forest we looked for a good place to camp and pitched our tent, there were quite a few midges around.
- black: He was busily sucking down some small black midge which had become trapped in a calm slick at the edge of the loch.
Modifies a noun
- larva: The midge larva makes a tunnel in the mud by sticking grains of mud together.
- bite: I found a convenient rise with a suitable flat patch to pitch my tent and endured a lot of midge bites.
- trap: The Mosquito Magnet Liberty Plus is suitable for medium domestic use, see the individual midge trap products for more details.
- net: The midge head net - this is what we're on about.
- population: The only minor drawback is the presence of the biggest midge population in southern scotland.
- season: Around two-thirds also said they would not return during the height of the midge season.
Noun used with modifier
midge Quotes
And low the mists of evening lie And lightly skims the midge.
As low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
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