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Bug

noun
1.
General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
2.
A fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine.  Synonym: glitch.
3.
A small hidden microphone; for listening secretly.
4.
Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.  Synonyms: hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect.
5.
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use.  Synonyms: germ, microbe.
verb
1.
Annoy persistently.  Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, pester, tease.
2.
Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information.  Synonyms: intercept, tap, wiretap.  "Is this hotel room bugged?"



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"Bug" Quotes from Famous Books



... The woodland bug, whose egg is a masterpiece, invents I know not what magical centre-bit, what curious piece of locksmith's work, in order to unlock its natal casket and achieve ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros
... settled upon Hawker's brow, and he kicked at the dressing case. "Say, Hollie, look here! Sometimes I think you regard me as a bug and like to see ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
... bass, pickerel, trout or pan fish I use a light leader, treated so that it will sink. I cast to a likely looking spot, beside an old stump along lily pads, or to an opening in the lily pads themselves. I let the Bug hit the water with quite a splash, as a living moth of the same size would, and there I let it lie, absolutely motionless, as though stunned by the blow. By all means do not be impatient, let the Bug lie ...
— How to Tie Flies • E. C. Gregg
... but I am so sorry Mr. Douglas is not at one with me; I feel convinced the dear potato bug comes from the east; he is of brilliant ...
— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny
... of women, and recalling Mr. Charles Warner's quaint idea of all his 'Polly' was good for on the scene of his conflicts with Nature, the 'striped bug' and the weed 'Pusley,'—namely, to sit on an inverted flower-pot and 'consult' him whilst he was hoeing,—it is interesting to notice that some generations ago the garden was very emphatically included within woman's 'proper sphere,' which was not, in ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden


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