单词 | bug-crazy |
释义 | > as lemmasbug-crazy bug-crazy adj. chiefly U.S. (a) having a passion for (or obsession with) bugs (sense 1) or (occasionally) germs; (b) crazy, insane (cf. sense 7). ΚΠ 1886 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 9 Oct. 8 (caption) She was bug crazy. The mysterious female from New Orleans whose captive Brazilian beetle astonished and disgusted the hotel boarders. 1897 Jrnl. Med. & Sci. Nov. 411/1 It is not surprising that the laity have, as an old doctor puts it, gone ‘bug crazy’ and that they have an increasingly morbid interest in disease germs. 1901 in L. C. Pickett Jinny 79 One er deze yer Cap'ns er Marines got bug-crazy..en tried ter split Marse John Brown wide open wid his saber. 1988 Weekly World News 27 Dec. 7/5 The bug-crazy natives have devised special nets to capture the delectable insect invaders. 2008 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 21 Mar. (TV section) 6 The..scientist who successfully tests a top-secret invisibility serum on himself... He goes bug-crazy and starts..doing things to women that an invisible nutcase would. < as lemmas |
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