bug-walk

English

Etymology

Presumably in reference to the bedbugs that might infest it.

Noun

bug-walk (plural bug-walks)

1. (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

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary