Bedbug

Definition: Bedbug

Bedbug

Noun

1. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.

Date "bedbug" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

Synonyms: Bedbug

Synonyms: bed bug (n), chinch (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Bedbug

English words defined with "bedbug": big bedbug ♦ Cimiss ♦ Punese. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bedbug": PSIDIUM GUJAVA. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Send This Jerk the Bedbug Letter: How Companies, Politicians, and the Mass Media Deal With Complaints and How to Be a More Effective Complainer (reference) The bedbug (reference) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (reference) The Fly and the Bedbug (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Bedbug" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bedbug" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "bedbug": big bedbug. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "bedbug"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tartabiq (bug), çimkë (bug, chinch). (various references)

Arabic		‏قملة الفراش, ‏بق الفراش. (various references)

Bulgarian		дървеница (bug, chinch). (various references)

Chinese		壁虱 (tick). (various references)

Czech		štìnice (bug, chinch). (various references)

Danish		vaeggelus (bed bug, cimex, clinophilus), sengetaege (cimex, clinophilus). (various references)

Dutch		wandluis (bed bug, bug). (various references)

Esperanto		cimo (bug). (various references)

Farsi		ساس که ازخون انسان تغذیه میکند. (various references)

French		punaise (bedtick). (various references)

German		wanze (bug, bugging device). (various references)

Greek		κορέοσ, κοριόσ (bug). (various references)

Hebrew		פשפש (bug). (various references)

Hungarian		poloska (bug, chinch, pitting). (various references)

Indonesian		bangsat (cur, knave). (various references)

Italian		clinocoris (cimex), cimice (bed bug, bug), cimex. (cimex). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		南京虫 , 寝台虫 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		な�"き�"むし, し�"� いむし. (various references)

Manx		meeyl lhiabbagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		edbugbay

Portuguese		percevejo (barnacle, bug, chinch, drawing pin, thumbtack). (various references)

Romanian		ploşniţã (bug). (various references)

Russian		клоп постельный (chinch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stenica (bug). (various references)

Spanish		chinche (bug, cotton stainer, drawing pin, red cotton bug, red stainer, stainer, tarnished plant bug, thumbtack). (various references)

Swedish		vägglus (bed bug, bug, chinch). (various references)

Thai		ตัวเรือ�". (various references)

Turkish		tahtakurusu (b flat, bug, chinch). (various references)

Turkmen		tagtabiti (termite). (various references)

Ukranian		клоп постільний (chinch), провідник пульманівського вагона. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	�aran. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bedbug": bedbugs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bedbug" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bawburgh, Bedeux, Bedou, bedu, Bendouga, Eadburg, Edburg. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bedbug" (pronounced be"dbug)
3	-b u g	stinkbug.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-g-u"
	-1 letter: budge, debug.
	-2 letters: bedu, gude.
	-3 letters: bed, beg, bub, bud, bug, deb, dub, due, dug, ebb, ged.
	-4 letters: be, de, ed.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-g-u"
	+1 letter: bedbugs, grubbed.
	+3 letters: bedaubing, bedumbing, redubbing.
	+5 letters: overdubbing, unbudgeable, unbudgeably.
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