buggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡɪʃ/
Forms: form: more buggish
form: most buggish
Etymology: From bug + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 'What?' Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers.
ref: 1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave:
text: Clarence looks into his rearview mirror and finds that the small buggish car is still following him, and its horn beeps every few minutes.
ref: 2000, Lana Witt, The Heart of a Thirsty Woman, page 177:
text: One second he's there and the next he detonates, ka-blam!, covering the ceiling, which has become ants, and the walls, which have become ants, and the floors, which have become ants, with, weh-hell, ants and more ants and chunks of organs and flaps of skin and wads of hair, his organs and skin and hair, which now sprout compound eyes and six legs apiece and antennae and almost imperceptibly small stingers on their bottoms a-and start tooling away, single-file, a miniature battalion of buggish body parts marching in different directions, merging with the ant-soup all around them, the an sea, the great ocean of Antlantis, […]
ref: 2000, Lance Olsen, “Strategies in the Overexposure of a well-lit space”, in Lidia Yuknavitch, L. N. Pearson, editors, Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions:
text: His buggish eyes were as prominent as the full moon overhead.
ref: 2012, Daniel Coleman, Gifts and Consequences:
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike.
examples: text: Meanwhile, rumour had been tramping about with her crescit eundô; and, long before the Faculty received our Scytala, they had heard her cry— "The Board has told Major Thorntree, the Faculty shall be tried and turned right out, and shall be sued for damages done the school and the State, and— Woodville, by their unconstitutional, high-hand, big-buggish, aristocratic yankee notions!! "
ref: 1843, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West, page 183:
text: "Thought you big-buggish, and set up, with all those fine things; and I should have felt just so," answered Mrs. Thorp.
ref: 1873 March, Ann S. Stephens, “The Lost Inheritance”, in The Peterson magazine, volume 63, number 3, page 216:
text: (Will I?) I, that I will; a fart for the bragger! He shall down if he give me but one buggish word.
ref: 1906, John Stephen Farmer, Six Anonymous Plays, page 152:
text: If my old friend the late Argwings Kodhek was still alive he would qualify to become the Chairman because he was a brilliant lawyer and not a buggish type, but a lawyer who understands all the aspects of law and who can do a good job.
ref: 1995, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard):
synonyms: word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
glosses: Uppity.
examples: text: Of father Anchises thee goast and grislye resemblaunce, When the day dooth vannish, when lights eke starrye be twinckling, In sleepe mee monisheth, with visadge buggish he feareth.
ref: 1879, Edward Arber, The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works, page 107:
text: The buggish bishops cannot make such-a-one afraid; because they cannot take away one hair from our head until God give them leave, which I am sure He will not do, until such time as He shall see it most to His glory, and the profit of His saints; ane when that time is once coe, who will desire to tarry here any longer?
ref: 1884, Letters of the martyrs of the English Church, page 321:
text: But he also mocked the government for its exaggerated reation, its attempt to whip up fear over this plot — hues and Cries raised, fright bruted in the peoples eares, and all mens eyes filled with such a smoake, as though the whole Reqalme had bene on fire, whereas in truth it was but the hissinge of a few greene twigges of their owne kindling , which they might without any such uprores have quenched with a handfull of water, but that it made not so much for their purpose as these buggish and terrible shewes . . . (and) generall demonstrations of a needles feare.
ref: 1972, Garry Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion, page 240:
synonyms: word: affreux
word: alarming
word: spine-tingling
word: appalling
word: awful
word: buggish
word: butt-clenching
word: buttock-clenching
word: dismayful
word: dreadful
word: fearful
word: flaysome
word: flesh-crawling
word: formidable
word: freaky
word: frightening
word: frightensome
word: frightful
word: ghastly
word: ghostly
word: grisly
word: hair-curling
word: hair-raising
word: horrible
word: horrid
word: horrific
word: horrifying
word: horripilating
word: pulse-pounding
word: scaring
word: scary
word: shocking
word: skin-crawling
word: terrible
word: terrifying
word: terrorsome
glosses: Frightening; like a bugbear.
examples: text: Now asked sweet mama to let me be her kid She says I might get buggish I couldn't keep it hid.
ref: 1930, Sleepy John Estes, Milk Cow Blues:
text: (see title)
ref: 1938, Willie Bee (James), Washboard Sam, My baby's getting buggish:
text: Ohh, little girl got buggish, she throwed all of my clothes outdoors.
ref: 2003, Paul Garon, The Devil's Son-in-law, page 19:
synonyms: word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
qualifier: jazz
glosses: Crazy.