litterbug

noun
/ˈlɪtɚˌbʌɡ/US

Etymology

From litter + bug. Coined in 1947 by New York copywriter Paul B. Gioni for The American Ad Council, perhaps punning on jitterbug.

  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. formed as litterbug — “litter + bug

Definitions

  1. A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up.

    • […] I mean I'm sittin' here, on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug
    • Pretending a litterbug and a spree killer have committed equivalent infractions doesn’t make people safer.
    • Mr. Doherty was known to publicly berate litterbugs and upbraid motorists whose stranded cars prevented plows from clearing snow.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for litterbug. 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