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单词 mudbug
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mudbugn.

Brit. /ˈmʌdbʌɡ/, U.S. /ˈmədˌbəɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.1, bug n.2
Etymology: < mud n.1 + bug n.2
U.S. regional (southern, esp. Louisiana).
A crayfish.
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1955 Ford Times Feb. 42 The commercial crayfishermen use traps in deeper water where the mudbugs are bigger.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways iii. xi. 116 The waitress said,..‘You know, the Cajun, he sometime call them “mudbugs”. But I never tell a customer that until he all full inside.’
2000 Arizona Republic 12 Dec. b6 The article Monday went on to describe the little ‘mudbug’ as a ‘problem’. It seems that in Arizona the crawfish has no natural enemy, and the resulting ecological imbalance has become a serious problem.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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