bug

adj

1. Initialism of bisexual until graduation.

name

Etymology: From the Slavic hydronym *bugъ /*buga.

1. An East European river which flows northwest 450 miles through Belarus, Poland and Ukraine into the Baltic Sea. (Western Bug).
2. A river in Ukraine (Southern Bug), flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.

noun

1. A Bugatti car.

verb

Etymology: First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a “bedbug”), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), from Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”) which is traced alternatively to: * a Celtic root found in Scots bogill (“goblin, bugbear”) and obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat, fear”) and Middle Irish bocanách (“supernatural being”). * Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”); compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin, snot”). * or to a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre. For the “insect” meaning the assonance with Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda, from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above, might have played a role. Compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”). More at bud. But ultimately this convergence of meaning doesn't prove a conflation of the two terms; they might have existed in parallel since PIE times with similar meanings, even if unnoticed by literary sources. The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.

1. To annoy.

   “Don’t bug me, I’m busy!”

2. To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.

   “I'm worried about Wallace. He's been buggin' all week.”

3. To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

   “We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.”

4. To bulge or protrude.

   “I well remember the combination of excitement and apprehension with which I tentatively entered my first "rap." My eyes bugged open. There must have been 25 women in the room. I don't think I had ever seen so many lesbians all together in one place before.”

5. To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.

   “You (or the autopilot) are still steering to the bugged heading […]”