buggy
See also: Buggy
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editOrigin unknown.
Noun
editbuggy (plural buggies)
- A small horse-drawn cart.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
- A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
- 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times[1]:
- I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.
- A hearse.
- 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
- Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
- 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
- (UK, Western Pennsylvania) A pushchair; a stroller.
- Synonym: stroller
- 2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12:
- The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.
- (Canada, Southern US, Western Pennsylvania) A shopping cart or trolley.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editTranslations
editA small horse-drawn cart
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A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy
pushchair — see pushchair
shopping cart — see shopping cart
Etymology 2
editAdjective
editbuggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)
- Infested with insects.
- (computing) Containing programming errors.
- This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
- Resembling an insect.
- (slang) Crazy; bughouse.[1][2]
- 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, page 106:
- You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editinfested with insects
containing programming errors
References
editFurther reading
edit- “buggy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈbʏ.ɡi/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: bug‧gy
Noun
editbuggy m (plural buggy's, diminutive buggy'tje n)
- a baby buggy, a pushchair, a stroller
- a buggy (small motor vehicle)
Derived terms
editAdjective
editbuggy (not comparable)
- Buggy, containing programming errors
Declension
editDeclension of buggy | ||||
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uninflected | buggy | |||
inflected | buggy | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | buggy | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | buggy | ||
n. sing. | buggy | |||
plural | buggy | |||
definite | buggy | |||
partitive | buggy's |
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbuggy m (plural buggies or buggys)
- buggy (small vehicle)
Further reading
edit- “buggy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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