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Definition bug
Etymology
First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a bedbug), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), a conflation of two words:
- Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”), from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin”, “snot”)
- Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda (see scearnbudda (“dung beetle”)), from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô (compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”)). More at bud.
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.
Noun
bug (plural bugs)
- (colloquial, US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
- (chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
- A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
- (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
- (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
- (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- (obsolete) Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies. [late 14th c.–early 17th. c]
- (chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.
- (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
- (petroleum industry, slang, dated) Synonym of oil bug
- (slang, horse-racing) A young apprentice jockey.
Verb
bug (third-person singular simple present bugs, present participle bugging, simple past and past participle bugged)
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