"gallinipper" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "18thC. Origin unknown. Earlier forms were gurnipper and gal-knipper. Second element is probably nipper; first element may have become influenced by galley.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gallinippers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gallinipper (plural gallinippers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Insects",
          "orig": "en:Insects",
          "parents": [
            "Arthropods",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mosquitoes",
          "orig": "en:Mosquitoes",
          "parents": [
            "Culicomorphs",
            "Dipterans",
            "Insects",
            "Arthropods",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Roger Abrahams, African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World, page 55:",
          "text": "And when darkness comes and they leave off, the mosquitoes and the gallinippers join hands to take their place and suck out blood and annoy us until the first day brings its light.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any large insect that bites, for example, certain large mosquitos."
      ],
      "id": "en-gallinipper-en-noun-MGHTFhC0",
      "links": [
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "mosquito",
          "mosquito"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) Any large insect that bites, for example, certain large mosquitos."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gallinipper"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "18thC. Origin unknown. Earlier forms were gurnipper and gal-knipper. Second element is probably nipper; first element may have become influenced by galley.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gallinippers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gallinipper (plural gallinippers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Insects",
        "en:Mosquitoes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Roger Abrahams, African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World, page 55:",
          "text": "And when darkness comes and they leave off, the mosquitoes and the gallinippers join hands to take their place and suck out blood and annoy us until the first day brings its light.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any large insect that bites, for example, certain large mosquitos."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "mosquito",
          "mosquito"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) Any large insect that bites, for example, certain large mosquitos."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gallinipper"
}