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Definition of Bug

Bug

A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.

An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.

One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.

One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.

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Bug Quotations

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
Gene Tierney

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.
George Galloway

Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. I don't see myself as this. But it gives you dramatic license to do almost anything when you're dressed as a bug.
Joan Severance

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
Kristen Bell

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
Thurston Moore

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
Kevin Richardson

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
Hilary Duff

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
Bobby McFerrin

But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.
Christine Taylor

'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.
Christine Taylor

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.
Penelope Spheeris

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
George Strait

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.
Katherine Moennig

I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.
Brian McKnight

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
Kirsty Gallacher

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
Evan Dando

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
Ken Thompson

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
John Lithgow

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
Karrie Webb

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
Wietse Venema

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Andy Hertzfeld

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.
Dominic Monaghan

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
W. Richard Stevens

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
Allen Funt

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Bug Translations

Bug in Dutch is Boeg
bug in Dutch is wandluis
bug in French is punaise, insecte
bug in German is laus/Fehler
bug in Norwegian is insekt
bug in Portuguese is insecto, erro, inseto
bug in Spanish is bicho, insecto, gazapo

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