muskito

English

muskito (plural muskitos or muskitoes)

Obsolete spelling of mosquito.
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Relations of the Discoveries, Regions, and Religions, of the New World.] Of the North parts of the New World (Groenland, Estotiland, Meta Incognita, and other Places) vnto New Fraunce.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book VIII (Of New France, Virginia, Florida; New Spaine, with Other Regions of America Mexicana, and of Their Religions), page 624:
  In 66. deg. 33. min. they found it very hotte, and were much troubled with a ſtinging Flie, called Muskito.