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BUGGY
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Irregular inflected forms: buggier , buggiest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse
Synonyms:
buggy; roadster
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("buggy" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Infested with bugs
Classified under:
Similar:
dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)
Derivation:
bug (general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate)
bugginess (the state of having bugs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Example:
it used to drive my husband balmy
Synonyms:
around the bend; balmy; barmy; bats; batty; bonkers; buggy; cracked; crackers; daft; dotty; fruity; haywire; kookie; kooky; loco; loony; loopy; nuts; nutty; round the bend; wacky; whacky
Classified under:
Similar:
insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)
