Buggish

/ˈbʌɡɪʃ/ · adjective

Meaning

Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike..

Definitions by Sense

1. Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike.
2. (obsolete or dialect) Uppity.
3. (obsolete) Frightening; like a bugbear.
4. (slang, jazz) Crazy.

Example Sentences

'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.

One second he's there and the next he detonates, ka-blam!, covering the ceiling, which has become ants, and the walls, which have become ants, and the floors, which have become ants, with, weh-hell, ants and more ants and chunks of organs and flaps of skin and wads of hair, his organs and skin and hair, which now sprout compound eyes and six legs apiece and antennae and almost imperceptibly small stingers on their bottoms a-and start tooling away, single-file, a miniature battalion of buggish body parts marching in different directions, merging with the ant-soup all around them, the an sea, the great ocean of Antlantis, […]

His buggish eyes were as prominent as the full moon overhead.

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!! "

"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.

If my old friend the late Argwings Kodhek was still alive he would qualify to become the Chairman because he was a brilliant lawyer and not a buggish type, but a lawyer who understands all the aspects of law and who can do a good job.

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• more buggish
• most buggish

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