Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae. Females of most species are ectoparasites, whose tube-like mouthparts (called a proboscis) pierce the hosts' skin to consume blood. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish for little fly.
It is derived from the Guugu Yimidhirr word gangurru refaring to the grey kangaroo. Sir Joseph Banks, botanist on James Cook's first voyage, noted the name of the kangaroo as  gangurru  when he tried to communicate with the Aborigines regarding the name of the strange hopping animal noted on Australia's shores.he word is â¦ believed to have come from the Aboriginal word gangurru, a Guugu Yimidhirr word referring to the Grey Kangaroo. Captain James Cook's botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, first recorded the word as kangaru when the Endeavour was damaged on the Great Barrier Reef near modern-day Cooktown.
the true origin is uncertain the word picnic did not originate as an abbreviation of pick a nigger a phrase falsely claimed to have been used by white families at community lynchings in the 19th century picnic comes from 17th century french piquenique which is of uncertain originhe word crap did not originate as a back formation of british plumber thomas crapper s surname nor does his name originate from the word crap although the surname may have helped popularize the word the surname crapper is a variant of cropper which originally referred to someone who harvested crops