bug-walk
English
editEtymology
editPresumably in reference to the bedbugs that might infest it.
Noun
edit- (UK, slang, obsolete) A bed.
- 1887, Truth, volume 21, page 38:
- […] Who, when he encounters an over-filled guest, / Either staggering homewards or taking his rest, / Sees him safe to his bug-walk […]
- 1969, Kovave, volumes 1-5, page 38:
- There would be no more visiting in that direction for a while, and back he would roost in his 'bug-walk'.
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary