Synonyms for beetle

Grammar : Adj, noun, verb

Spell : beet-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbit l

Top 10 synonyms for beetle

Other synonyms for the word beetle

Définition of beetle

Origin : type of insect, Old English bitela "beetle," literally "little biter," from bitel "biting," related to bitan "to bite" (see bite). As a nickname for the original Volkswagen car, 1946, translating German Käfer.

As in oversized : adj bulky
As in insect : noun bug
As in bug : noun insect
As in jut : verb extend
As in lean : verb bend, angle toward
As in overhang : verb bulge, hang over
As in project : verb bulge, hang out
As in protrude : verb stick out
As in stand out : verb be conspicuous, prominent
As in stick out : verb bulge
As in bulge : verb project outward
As in protuberate : verb bulge
As in hang : verb suspend or be suspended

Example sentences :

I don't care whether you're deef or dumb, or whether you're nummer'n a beetle!
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

Is not the author and parent of all our love, Cupid, as blind as a beetle?
Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus

He had drawn the beetle with whom he was talking to a position where they were behind the rest.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various

By the way, did he mention the name of the beetle that's going to do all this heavy work?
Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

It is a representation of an Egyptian beetle, Ateuchus Sacer, you know.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

There, as the beetle resumed its flight, the novelist spread his wings.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

The Spider came, and there he found a cricket, a beetle, and a bug.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

It bears no mark which would indicate a future metamorphosis into a beetle.
Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 » by Various

Give me some wedges, a beetle, and a few men of my own choice.
Extract from : « Captains of Industry » by James Parton

The scarab Madge knew to be a beetle sacred to the Egyptians.
Extract from : « Madge Morton's Secret » by Amy D. V. Chalmers

Antonyms for beetle

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