bedbugn.

Brit.

/ˈbɛdbʌɡ/, U.S.

/ˈbɛdˌbəɡ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bed n., bug n.²

Etymology: < bed n. + bug n.²

A bloodsucking heteropteran bug of flattened shape, Cimex lectularius (family Cimicidae), which comes out to feed on humans at night. Sometimes also: any of the bugs of this family, which are parasites of mammals and birds.Originally known simply as ‘bug’ (bug n.² 2a), and frequently still so called in the United States and parts of Britain.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae > cimex lectularius (bed-bug)

punaisec1530

wall-louse1540

cimex1585

bug1622

chincha1640

want-louse1655

wiglouse1658

bedbug1740

B. flat1853

Norfolk Howard1862

mahogany flat1864

1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. xxiv Cochineel, a costly fine red and purple-colour, are small dry'd up insects, in size of bed-bugs.

1786 Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. 76 169 I found in the centre of all the largest and most perfect a small insect..about the size of a small bed-bug.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 274 The Bed Bug..is a nauseous and troublesome inhabitant of most houses in large towns.

1834 S. Smith Maj. Downing 139 [He has] gone back..to New York..with a bed bug in his ear.

1885 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 5/3 Bed bugs..are the disagreeable insects known in modern polite English as ‘Norfolk Howards’, or ‘gentlemen in brown’.

1912 Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. Oct. 509/2 The bedbug has been, for generations, the abomination of the housewife, and the object of her unrelenting warfare.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxv. 224 I didn't think the bedbugs could get into my suitcase or typewriter.., but the duffle bag was pregnable.

1971 D. P. Furman in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) xx. 590 The common bed bug..and at least three species of avian bed bugs occasionally attack poultry.

2009 Independent 9 Mar. 11/2 Unlike microscopic dust mites also found in beds, bedbugs—Cimex lectularius—are a quarter of an inch long.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bedbug
释义	bedbugn. Brit. /ˈbɛdbʌɡ/, U.S. /ˈbɛdˌbəɡ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bed n., bug n.² Etymology: < bed n. + bug n.² A bloodsucking heteropteran bug of flattened shape, Cimex lectularius (family Cimicidae), which comes out to feed on humans at night. Sometimes also: any of the bugs of this family, which are parasites of mammals and birds.Originally known simply as ‘bug’ (bug n.² 2a), and frequently still so called in the United States and parts of Britain. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae > cimex lectularius (bed-bug) punaisec1530 wall-louse1540 cimex1585 bug1622 chincha1640 want-louse1655 wiglouse1658 bedbug1740 B. flat1853 Norfolk Howard1862 mahogany flat1864 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. xxiv Cochineel, a costly fine red and purple-colour, are small dry'd up insects, in size of bed-bugs. 1786 Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. 76 169 I found in the centre of all the largest and most perfect a small insect..about the size of a small bed-bug. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 274 The Bed Bug..is a nauseous and troublesome inhabitant of most houses in large towns. 1834 S. Smith Maj. Downing 139 [He has] gone back..to New York..with a bed bug in his ear. 1885 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 5/3 Bed bugs..are the disagreeable insects known in modern polite English as ‘Norfolk Howards’, or ‘gentlemen in brown’. 1912 Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. Oct. 509/2 The bedbug has been, for generations, the abomination of the housewife, and the object of her unrelenting warfare. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxv. 224 I didn't think the bedbugs could get into my suitcase or typewriter.., but the duffle bag was pregnable. 1971 D. P. Furman in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) xx. 590 The common bed bug..and at least three species of avian bed bugs occasionally attack poultry. 2009 Independent 9 Mar. 11/2 Unlike microscopic dust mites also found in beds, bedbugs—Cimex lectularius—are a quarter of an inch long. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1740
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