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单词 pinch bug
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pinch bugn.

Brit. /ˈpɪn(t)ʃ bʌɡ/, U.S. /ˈpɪn(t)ʃ ˌbəɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pinch v., bug n.2
Etymology: < pinch v. + bug n.2Perhaps compare English regional (Hampshire) pinch-buck, in the same sense.
U.S. regional (chiefly north Midland).
A stag beetle.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Lucanidae (stag-beetles) > member of genus Lucanus (stag-beetle)
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pinch bug1856
1856 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 25 May in Iowa Jrnl. Hist. (1929) 27 423 A tenor and bass duet by thirty-two thousand locusts and ninety-seven thousand pinch-bugs was sung.
1871 E. Eggleston Bk. Queer Stories ix. 74 We came to a log on which two of that sort of beetles that children call ‘pinch-bugs’, were fighting.
1915 W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii xxxi. 417 The stag-beetles or pinch bugs, so called on account of their large mandibles.
2000 State Jrnl.-Register (Springfield, Illinois) (Nexis) 29 July (Outdoors section) 12 A two inch, hard-shelled pinch bug with pinchers like ice picks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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