bugginessn.

Brit.

/ˈbʌɡɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈbəɡinᵻs/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: buggy adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < buggy adj. + -ness suffix.

Now chiefly North American.

1. The fact or condition of being infested with insects or other bugs (bug n.² 1); characterized by the presence of a large number of these. Also: the fact or quality of being an insect or other bug.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [noun]

lousiness1530

fly-blowing1610

vermiculation1611

pulicosity1656

bugginess1736

mousiness1882

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Bugginess, the having bugs.

1850 Mich. Farmer June 180/2 He says that pouring boiling water upon peas for seed, and letting them stand in it ten or fifteen minutes, will effectually destroy all their bugginess, without injury to the peas.

1884 N.-Y. Times 28 Sept. 6/1 How can I, in this state of heat and moisture and bugginess, begin to describe the start from New York?

1918 A. C. Chandler Animal Parasites & Dis. xxi. 383 Prevention of ‘bugginess’, at least in the case of bedbugs, consists chiefly in good housekeeping.

1948 Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 7 June 12/2 There is no creature which quite so satisfies the generics of its name as the June bug. For 100 per cent, dark-brown, burly bugginess he is it.

2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Dec. e1 Syd and I would run through a checklist of our day while waving the insects away from our food. There is a generally accepted level of bugginess in Guatemala.

2. Computing. Of software: the fact or condition of being prone to malfunction due to programming errors or flaws; the fact or condition of containing many bugs (bug n.² 5b).

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1972 AFIPS Conf. Proc. 41 175/1 If we have some estimate for the initial correctness (or ‘bugginess’) of a system and for the intermodule connectivity (the probabilities), then we can easily obtain an estimate for the total number of changes that will be required to debug the system.

1986 Computerworld (Nexis) 20 Aug. 6 Fortune's interface was pretty good, but it had problems with bugginess and user support.

1997 Internet World Jan. 116/1 As far as the bugginess issue, both clients do crash too much.

2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Feb. a17/2 We'll leave Flash's acolytes to defend it against charges of bugginess.

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

单词	bugginess
释义	bugginessn. Brit. /ˈbʌɡɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈbəɡinᵻs/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: buggy adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < buggy adj. + -ness suffix. Now chiefly North American. 1. The fact or condition of being infested with insects or other bugs (bug n.² 1); characterized by the presence of a large number of these. Also: the fact or quality of being an insect or other bug. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [noun] lousiness1530 fly-blowing1610 vermiculation1611 pulicosity1656 bugginess1736 mousiness1882 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Bugginess, the having bugs. 1850 Mich. Farmer June 180/2 He says that pouring boiling water upon peas for seed, and letting them stand in it ten or fifteen minutes, will effectually destroy all their bugginess, without injury to the peas. 1884 N.-Y. Times 28 Sept. 6/1 How can I, in this state of heat and moisture and bugginess, begin to describe the start from New York? 1918 A. C. Chandler Animal Parasites & Dis. xxi. 383 Prevention of ‘bugginess’, at least in the case of bedbugs, consists chiefly in good housekeeping. 1948 Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 7 June 12/2 There is no creature which quite so satisfies the generics of its name as the June bug. For 100 per cent, dark-brown, burly bugginess he is it. 2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Dec. e1 Syd and I would run through a checklist of our day while waving the insects away from our food. There is a generally accepted level of bugginess in Guatemala. 2. Computing. Of software: the fact or condition of being prone to malfunction due to programming errors or flaws; the fact or condition of containing many bugs (bug n.² 5b). ΚΠ 1972 AFIPS Conf. Proc. 41 175/1 If we have some estimate for the initial correctness (or ‘bugginess’) of a system and for the intermodule connectivity (the probabilities), then we can easily obtain an estimate for the total number of changes that will be required to debug the system. 1986 Computerworld (Nexis) 20 Aug. 6 Fortune's interface was pretty good, but it had problems with bugginess and user support. 1997 Internet World Jan. 116/1 As far as the bugginess issue, both clients do crash too much. 2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Feb. a17/2 We'll leave Flash's acolytes to defend it against charges of bugginess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1736
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