bug wordn.

Brit.

/ˈbʌɡ wəːd/, U.S.

/ˈbəɡ ˌwərd/

Forms:

α. 1500s bugges woordes (plural), 1500s bugges wordes (plural), 1500s bugs woord, 1500s bugs wordes (plural), 1500s bugs words (plural), 1600s bugges word, 1600s bugs word.

β. 1600s–1700s 1900s– bug word.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bug n.¹, word n.

Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of bug n.¹ + word n. In β. forms apparently < bug n.¹ + word n.; compare also bug adj. Compare bugbear word n. at bugbear n. Compounds 2.

A word causing or intended to cause fear or dread. In early use also (in plural): †pompous, conceited, or boastful language (obsolete). Cf. bugbear word n. at bugbear n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > verbal threatening

beotOE

i-beotc1000

boast1487

bug word1546

boastinga1614

vowing1886

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > blustering language

bug word1546

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > word meant to terrify

bugbear wordc1600

bug word1668

α.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. H All be bugs words, that I speake to spare.

a1600 R. Hooker Notes on Christian Let. in Wks. (1982) IV. 17 Certaine woordes, as Nature, Reason, Will and such like which..you suspect..as bugs wordes.

a1631 R. Cotton Serious Considerations for Repressing Increase of Iesuites (1641) 33 Nay, shall I speak a Bugges word.

1665 R. Howard Surprisal iv. ii. in Four New Plays 45 Vill. Nay, I cannot tell what operation A Rack and Torture might have on me; I am flesh and blood. Bran. So am I too, I know it by my shaking. This was a bugs word;—wou'd he were gone.

β. 1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition 14 And though he make glorious & vaunting Pollicitations of binding Beares, and moouing Mountaines, yet if trusting to his big and Bugge words, vpon some vrgent necessitie you desire his Counsell,..you shall finde him falter at the first onset.1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 163 Outdared with the bigge-lookes and bug-words of those that could doe him no harme.1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all i. 9 Sir M. I..have nothing to hope for now but death. Warn. Death is a Bug-word.a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. ⁋105 87 A Rebellion; O no, that's a bug Word. 1973 Philos. Q. 23 240 We should not be so frightened by that bug-word ‘irrational’ as to condemn personal love.2006 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 21 May a28 Stress is the bug word. It afflicts everybody, whatever the age group.

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

单词	bug word
释义	bug wordn. Brit. /ˈbʌɡ wəːd/, U.S. /ˈbəɡ ˌwərd/ Forms: α. 1500s bugges woordes (plural), 1500s bugges wordes (plural), 1500s bugs woord, 1500s bugs wordes (plural), 1500s bugs words (plural), 1600s bugges word, 1600s bugs word. β. 1600s–1700s 1900s– bug word. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bug n.¹, word n. Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of bug n.¹ + word n. In β. forms apparently < bug n.¹ + word n.; compare also bug adj. Compare bugbear word n. at bugbear n. Compounds 2. A word causing or intended to cause fear or dread. In early use also (in plural): †pompous, conceited, or boastful language (obsolete). Cf. bugbear word n. at bugbear n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > verbal threatening beotOE i-beotc1000 boast1487 bug word1546 boastinga1614 vowing1886 the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > blustering language bug word1546 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > word meant to terrify bugbear wordc1600 bug word1668 α. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. H All be bugs words, that I speake to spare. a1600 R. Hooker Notes on Christian Let. in Wks. (1982) IV. 17 Certaine woordes, as Nature, Reason, Will and such like which..you suspect..as bugs wordes. a1631 R. Cotton Serious Considerations for Repressing Increase of Iesuites (1641) 33 Nay, shall I speak a Bugges word. 1665 R. Howard Surprisal iv. ii. in Four New Plays 45 Vill. Nay, I cannot tell what operation A Rack and Torture might have on me; I am flesh and blood. Bran. So am I too, I know it by my shaking. This was a bugs word;—wou'd he were gone. β. 1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition 14 And though he make glorious & vaunting Pollicitations of binding Beares, and moouing Mountaines, yet if trusting to his big and Bugge words, vpon some vrgent necessitie you desire his Counsell,..you shall finde him falter at the first onset.1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 163 Outdared with the bigge-lookes and bug-words of those that could doe him no harme.1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all i. 9 Sir M. I..have nothing to hope for now but death. Warn. Death is a Bug-word.a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. ⁋105 87 A Rebellion; O no, that's a bug Word. 1973 Philos. Q. 23 240 We should not be so frightened by that bug-word ‘irrational’ as to condemn personal love.2006 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 21 May a28 Stress is the bug word. It afflicts everybody, whatever the age group. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1546
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