Definition of "buggish"
buggish
adjective
comparative more buggish, superlative most buggish
Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike.
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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, […]
2000, Lance Olsen, “Strategies in the Overexposure of a well-lit space”, in Lidia Yuknavitch, L. N. Pearson, editors, Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions
(obsolete or dialect) Uppity.
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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!! "
1843, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West, page 183
(obsolete) Frightening; like a bugbear.
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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?
1884, Letters of the martyrs of the English Church, page 321
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.
1972, Garry Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion, page 240
(slang, jazz) Crazy.
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