BUG Synonyms

• any of various small plant-sucking insects

• bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

• any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

• a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

• insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

• a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

• jutting or overhanging

• be suspended over or hang over

• fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

• beat with a beetle

• a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

• a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

• chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a living being

• a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

• an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)

• causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin

• a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals)

• any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

• two-winged insects characterized by active flight

• flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent

• an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth

• (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

• fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect

• (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked

• travel through the air; be airborne

• move quickly or suddenly

• operate an airplane

• transport by aeroplane

• cause to fly or float

• be dispersed or disseminated

• change quickly from one emotional state to another

• pass away rapidly

• travel in an airplane

• display in the air or cause to float

• run away quickly

• travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft

• hit a fly

• decrease rapidly and disappear

• any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies

• (British usage) mosquito

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

• wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

• a slight but appreciable amount

• any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

• two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

• arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Scorpio

• the eighth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about October 23 to November 21