Buggish
adj, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike.
"'What?' Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers."
- 2 Uppity. dialectal, obsolete
"Meanwhile, rumour had been tramping about with her crescit eundô; and, long before the Faculty received our Scytala, they had heard her cry— "The Board has told Major Thorntree, the Faculty shall be tried and turned right out, and shall be sued for damages done the school and the State, and— Woodville, by their unconstitutional, high-hand, big-buggish, aristocratic yankee notions!! ""
- 3 Frightening; like a bugbear. obsolete
"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 Crazy. slang
"Now asked sweet mama to let me be her kid She says I might get buggish I couldn't keep it hid."
Antonyms
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More examples"'What?' Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers."
Etymology
From bug + -ish.
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