buglessadj.
/ˈbʌɡləs/, U.S. /ˈbəɡləs/ Having no bug or bugs, free from bugs (in various senses of bug n.2); esp. (in early use) free from bedbugs.
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1805 Ode to Reviewers in R. Holloway Strictures on Characters Most Prominent Practising Attornies 7 On bugless-bed, each night to lie.
1855 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 362/1 Residing at a respectable inn, where the whiskey is of undeniable excellence, the beds bug-less.
1873 Trans. Kansas Board Agric. 1872 317 It should be every man's aim, in duty to himself and to his neighbors, to plant none but bugless peas!
1923 L. Woolf Let. 23 Apr. (1989) 226 V. has slept well the whole time, the hotels being quiet, smellless, & bugless.
1949 Flying Mag. Nov. 9/2 After a year of service-testing.., the inventors hope to build a bugless version in quantity in an existing aircraft factory.
1970 A. H. Jazwinski Stochastic Processes & Filtering Theory p. ix Their excellent and often bugless programming sometimes amazed me.
2002 York (Pa.) Sunday News (Nexis) 9 June Scientists..keep looking for another way to allow people to enjoy a bugless backyard barbecue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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