bug

Etymology
First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a bedbug), from earlier, a conflation of two words: The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.
 * , perhaps from obsolete Welsh ("ghost, hobgoblin"; compare Welsh  ("threat", older "fear")) or from, from ,  (compare 🇨🇬, dialectal Low German ). Or, from a word related to  and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre.
 * , from (see ), from, , from the same ultimate source as above (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). More at.

Noun

 * 1)  An insect of the order  (the “true bugs”).
 * 2) Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
 * 3)  Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
 * 4)  Any minibeast.
 * 5)  Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
 * 6)  A bedbug.
 * 7)   A problem that needs fixing.
 * 8) A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
 * 9)  An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
 * 10)  A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
 * 11) A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
 * 12) A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
 * 13)  A lobster.
 * 14)  A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
 * 15)  A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
 * 16) A semi-automated telegraph key.
 * 17)  Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
 * 18)  HIV.
 * 19)  A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
 * 20)  A trilobite.
 * 21) * July 1933, Popular Science:
 * Now, only three years later, most of the major oil companies maintain staffs of these men who examine cores, classify the various types of "bugs," or foraminifera, and make charts showing the depths at which each of the hundreds of types is found.
 * 1)  An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
 * 2)  A young apprentice jockey.
 * 3)  A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
 * 4)  A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
 * 1)  A lobster.
 * 2)  A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
 * 3)  A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
 * 4) A semi-automated telegraph key.
 * 5)  Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
 * 6)  HIV.
 * 7)  A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
 * 8)  A trilobite.
 * 9) * July 1933, Popular Science:
 * Now, only three years later, most of the major oil companies maintain staffs of these men who examine cores, classify the various types of "bugs," or foraminifera, and make charts showing the depths at which each of the hundreds of types is found.
 * 1)  An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
 * 2)  A young apprentice jockey.
 * 3)  A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
 * 4)  A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
 * 1)  A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
 * 2)  A trilobite.
 * 3) * July 1933, Popular Science:
 * Now, only three years later, most of the major oil companies maintain staffs of these men who examine cores, classify the various types of "bugs," or foraminifera, and make charts showing the depths at which each of the hundreds of types is found.
 * 1)  An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
 * 2)  A young apprentice jockey.
 * 3)  A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
 * 4)  A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
 * 1)  A young apprentice jockey.
 * 2)  A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
 * 3)  A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
 * 1)  A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
 * 2)  A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
 * 1)  A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
 * 1)  A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:defect

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to "bug": major, minor, serious, critical, nasty, annoying, important, strange, stupid, flying, silly.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Bashkir: ҡандала
 * Belarusian: клоп
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: insekto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: catafede, chumia, percevella,, fodegosa, zafeiro, ruvicoa
 * German: ,
 * Haitian Creole: ensèk
 * Italian:
 * Kalmyk: шалз
 * Karakalpak: pite
 * Latin: cīmex
 * Latvian: blaktis
 * Mi'kmaq: jujij, juji'ji'j
 * Navajo: chʼosh
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , polukrilac
 * Slovene:, , zajedavska stenica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: halvvinge
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: клоп
 * Welsh:, ,
 * Zazaki:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bashkir: бөжәк
 * Basque:, insektu
 * Belarusian: кузу́рка, казю́лька, казя́ўка, казу́рка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, kryb
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, bicho,
 * German:, Krabbeltier, pest
 * Greek:, ,
 * Haitian Creole: ensèk
 * Hebrew:, ג׳וּק
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: padda
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: itikka
 * Irish: feithid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: cīmex
 * Latvian: kukainis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese: insett żgħir
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: कीडा
 * Mi'kmaq: jujij, juji'ji'j
 * Mongolian:, ,
 * Nanai: колан
 * Navajo: chʼosh
 * Nepali:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: pēo
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوجك, حشره
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Sardinian: babboi, cerpíu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: žužek
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gagapang
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кома́шка, ку́зька, ку́зка,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Arabic: خَطَأ
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Belarusian: памы́лка, баг
 * Bulgarian:, бъг
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, , miso, eraro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: brek
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ხარვეზი, შეცდომა, პრობლემა, დეფექტი, გაუმართაობა, დაზიანება
 * German:, Fehlfunktion,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: böggur,
 * Interlingua: bug
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: грешка
 * Maltese: bagg
 * Marathi: बग
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian: باگ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: chyba
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: บั๊ก, จุดบกพร่อง
 * Ukrainian:, баг
 * Vietnamese:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maltese: infezzjoni, vajrus
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ви́русное заболева́ние, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: micròfon amagat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: salakuuntelulaite,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ფარულად მოსასმენი, ფარული მოსმენის ელექტრონული მოწყობილობა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Interlingua: microphono celate
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 盗聴器
 * Korean: 도청기
 * Norman: bog'se d'êcoute-pathai
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: micrófono oculto


 * Finnish: seurantapikseli
 * French: pixel de tracking,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: logo della rete
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: puoliautomaattinen avain


 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:,  ,
 * Slovak: ,

Verb

 * 1)   To annoy.
 * 2)   To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
 * 3)   To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
 * 4)  To bulge or protrude.
 * 1)   To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
 * 2)  To bulge or protrude.
 * 1)  To bulge or protrude.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:annoy

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Galician:, zangar, tafonear, moufar, , gravecer, empaxar, , , noxar, zoroñar, ronchear, aloufar
 * German:, , auf die Nerven fallen, die Nerven rauben
 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: irritar, vexar
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: piget, taedet
 * Malagasy:, ,
 * Marathi: पकवणे
 * Polish: wkurzać
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: živcirati
 * Spanish:, hacer la puñeta , buscarle las cosquillas
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 安裝竊聽器
 * Finnish: asentaa salakuuntelulaite
 * French: un, un , mettre sur écoute ,
 * German:
 * Interlingua: installar microphonos
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 盗聴器を仕掛ける
 * Norman: bog'ser
 * Polish: zakładać pluskwę, założyć pluskwę, podkładać pluskwę, podłożyć pluskwę
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: устана́вливать аппарату́ру для подслу́шивания
 * Slovene: namestiti prisluškovalno napravo
 * Spanish: colocar micrófonos ocultos
 * Swedish:

Etymology
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Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  bug
 * 2)  plot hole

Verb

 * 1)  to have bugs; to fault

Adjective

 * 1)  buggy; bugged

Etymology
From, from , cognate wtih 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) belly
 * 2) abdomen, abdominal cavity
 * 3)  belly, paunch
 * 1)  belly, paunch

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A  a software problem.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) boy young male human

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  software

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   error in a program’s functioning
 * 2)  anything causing unusual behaviour
 * 1)  anything causing unusual behaviour

Etymology
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