Gallinipper

"There are eight different kinds of mosquitoes in the Louisiana swamps and
the most ferocious, though not the most poisonous of them is the huge insect com-
monly called the gallinipper. This drinker of blood is a half inch long and its bill
is as long as its body. It has an intricate arrangement of files, saws and chisels in
this bill, all driven, it would appear, by superhuman power. It will sink its pro-
boscis through a glove of ordinary thickness, if left undisturbed, will bore easily
through a shirt sleeve and woolen undershirt to the arm beneath and will bite the
feet through thin boots and the socks under them."

- Washington County, New York; its history to the close of the nineteenth century by William Leete Stone.

G A L L I ED, ///. adj. (old).
' Harried ; vexed ; over-fatigued ;
perhaps like a galley - slave '
(GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.). In
Australia, frightened.

GALLI NIPPER, subs. (West Indian).
A large mosquito.

1847. PORTER, Big Bear, etc., p.
119. In the summer time the lakes and
snakes . . . musketoes and GALLINIPPERS,
buffalo gnats and sandflies . . . prevented

he Injins from gwine through the country.

1888. Lippincotfs Magazine. I
thought the GALLINIPPERS would fly away
with me before the seed ticks had sucked
all my blood.

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Their Basic Surliness

I must here observe, that amongst the generality of the lower sort of people in the United States, and particularly among those of Philadelphia there is a want of good manners which excite the surprize of almost every foreigner; I wish also that it may not be thought that this remark has been made, merely because the same deference and the same respectful attention which we see so commonly paid by the lower orders of people in Great Britain and Ireland to those who are in a situation somewhat superior to themselves, is not also paid in America to persons in the same station; it is the want of common civility I complain of, which it is always desirable to behold between man and man, let their situations in life be what they may, and is not contrary to the dictates of nature, or to the spirit of genuine liberty, as it is observable in the behaviour of the wild Indians that wander through the forests of this vast continent, the most free and independent of all human beings. In the United States, however, the lower classes of people will return rude and impertinent answers to questions couched in the most civil terms, and will insult a person that bears the appearance of a gentleman, on purpose to show how much they consider themselves upon an equality with him. Civility cannot be purchased from them on any terms; they seem to think that it is incompatible freedom, and that there is no other way of convincing a stranger that be is really in a land of liberty, but by being surly and ill mannered in his presence.
Isaac Weld,Travels Through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, Volume I, Letter II. (emphasis added).