noseeum

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See also: no-see-um

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Etymology

Shortened no see them.

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Noun

noseeum (plural noseeums)

  1. (colloquial) a biting midge, a small flying insect that harasses people out of doors, particularly in warm weather after sunset.
    • 1983, Bob Cary, The big wilderness canoe manual:
      Noseeums will go right through a tent screen.
    • 1999, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:
      The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks.

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