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bed-bug
[bed n.]
= bug n.2 2 a.
Freq. in U.S., on account of the use of bug in the general sense of ‘insect’.
1809Farmer's Almanack (Boston) July 1 Ladies, for mercy's sake, see about the bed bugs. 1813Bingley Anim. Biog. III. 181 The Bed Bug is a nauseous and troublesome inhabitant of most of the houses in large towns. 1861Mayhew Lond. Lab. III. 35/1 The bed-bug is not the only one of its congeners which preys upon man. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Bedbug-hunter, a reduviid bug,..which inhabits houses, where it preys upon bedbugs. 1964M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxx. 462 Bed-bugs live in hiding places such as the crevices of furniture and behind pictures, from which they emerge at night to suck blood. |