midge
noun/mɪdʒ/
/mɪdʒ/
- a small flying insect that lives especially in wet places and that bites humans and animalsTopics Insects, worms, etc.c2Word OriginOld English mycg(e), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch mug and German Mücke, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin musca and Greek muia ‘fly’.
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