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el piojo

/ˈpjoxo/ noun · masculine B2
  1. a louse, a cootie (a kind of parasitic insect, lice) · Todavía está en la edad en que cree que las chicas tienen piojos. He's still at the age where he thinks girls have cooties.

Plural piojos

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Porque allí extendía sus oscuros tapices el aspergillus niger, y campaban por sus respetos la pulga brincadora, la noctámbula chinche, el piojo vil, y hasta la friolera blata orientalis, plaga de cocinas y tahonas.
Recuerdos de mi vida: Mi infancia y juventud, p. 61 · C1

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