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doodlebugger

noun

Etymology

From doodlebug (“divining rod”) + -er.

  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. compounded as doodlebug — “doodle + bug”
  8. suffixed as doodlebugger — “doodlebug + er”

Definitions

  1. A dowser searching for subterranean natural resources such as water or oil.

    • This was a "doodlebugger," a man who searches for oil with divining rods of wondrous shapes and descriptions. And not just any doodlebugger, but one of the hottest noses in the amateur oil-sniffing game – Walter J. Nelson.

  2. A geophysicist working in the field to explore oil or other natural resources.

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