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buggish

adj
/ˈbʌɡɪʃ/

Etymology

From bug + -ish.

  1. derived from *buddô✻
  2. derived from budda
  3. derived from budde
  4. derived from *bʰew-✻
  5. derived from *bugja-✻
  6. derived from bugge
  7. suffixed as buggish — “bug + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of or resembling a bug

    Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike.

    • 'What?' Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers.
    • Clarence looks into his rearview mirror and finds that the small buggish car is still following him, and its horn beeps every few minutes.

  2. Uppity.

    • "Thought you big-buggish, and set up, with all those fine things; and I should have felt just so," answered Mrs. Thorp.
    • (Will I?) I, that I will; a fart for the bragger! He shall down if he give me but one buggish word.

  3. Frightening

    Frightening; like a bugbear.

    • Of father Anchises thee goast and grislye resemblaunce, When the day dooth vannish, when lights eke starrye be twinckling, In sleepe mee monisheth, with visadge buggish he feareth.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Crazy.

      • Now asked sweet mama to let me be her kid She says I might get buggish I couldn't keep it hid.
      • (see title)
      • Ohh, little girl got buggish, she throwed all of my clothes outdoors.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for buggish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA