From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Insectsmidgemidge /mɪdʒ/ noun [countable]HBIa small flyinginsect that can bite peopleExamples from the Corpusmidge• Designed to be worn under a jacket to protect face and neck from midges and mosquitoes.• That when it did, she believed that they would be obliterated totally, like midgesslapped into nothingness by a giant.• We all had a good cry and presents and kisses flew around like so many midges.• The air was breathlessly still, spent with raining, and coils of midgesspiralled silently up and down.• As the sun rose higher, millions of midgesemerged.• But it was no better outside: midgesboiled in clouds out of the soddenpeat around the saw-bed and the timberstacks.• How the rose midge got to California is a mystery, but Villegas said it was inevitable.OriginmidgeOld Englishmycg
