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Synonyms for bedbug

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bed-buhg
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɛdˌbʌg

Top 10 synonyms for bedbug
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Définition of bedbug

Origin :
  • also bed-bug, 1772, from bed (n.) + bug (n.).
  • [The bed bug] is supposed to have been first introduced to this country in the fir timber that was brought over to rebuild London after it had suffered by the great fire; for it is generally said that Bugs were not known in England before that time, and many of them were found almost immediately afterwards in the new-built houses. [the Rev. W. Bingley, "Animal Biography; or Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy of the Animal Creation," London, 1803]
  • As in insect : noun bug
  • As in vermin : noun pest
Example sentences :
  • But on the subject of the Terran Federation, he's crazy as a bedbug.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
  • He has found the parasite in all stages of development in the bedbug.
  • Extract from : « Insects and Diseases » by Rennie W. Doane
  • Well, I should eat a bedbug, if you can surpass it in this old town for dazzle.
  • Extract from : « Edith and John » by Franklin S. Farquhar
  • I've just been bit be a bedbug—an' I t'ought there wasn't a bedbug in the ship!
  • Extract from : « Cappy Ricks Retires » by Peter B. Kyne
  • The experimenters doubted that the bedbug is a carrier of the virus in nature.
  • Extract from : « Handbook of Medical Entomology » by William Albert Riley
  • While I was working in this way, getting more enraged every moment, a bedbug ran out of the seam between my fingers.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Who Toils » by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst
  • Two years ago I had occasion to visit 21— Armour Avenue, a “50-cent house” in the infamous “bedbug row district.”
  • Extract from : « Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls » by Jean Turner-Zimmermann
  • The bedbug has not been seen in a year in Porto Rico, though there is no reason why it should not be here.
  • Extract from : « The Popular Science Monthly, September, 1900 » by Various
  • It made a luxurious bed, and quite free from vermin; for a bedbug will never approach a bearskin.
  • Extract from : « In Search of a Siberian Klondike » by Homer B. Hulbert
  • The physiology and activity of the bedbug (Cimex lectularius L.) in a natural infestation.
  • Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
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