单词 | bugology |
释义 | bugologyn. U.S. (now often humorous). The study of insects or other bugs (bug n.2 1); entomology. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > insects entomology1766 insectology1766 bugology1843 bug hunting1855 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. l. 171 Chemistry, botany, anatomy, conchology, bugology. 1886 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 17 Nov. 4/1 Others recommended the study of bugology in the public schools so that the rising generation would know a white scale from a junebug. 1898 Congress. Rec. Apr. App. 455/2 Those..acquainted with bugology know there is rather a disreputable bug that looks one way and rolls the other. 1969 Field & Stream May 80/1 (heading) Crash course in bugology. 2010 Blade (Toledo, Ohio) 26 Jan. Topics covered will be elementary ‘bugology’, nomenclature, set-up, and casting. Derivatives buˈgologist n. a person who studies insects or other bugs (bug n.2 1); an entomologist. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > insects > one who insectologer1713 entomologist1772 insectologist1815 bugologist1848 bug hunter1856 bug chaser1889 1848 Maine Farmer 8 June 1/1 This borer is the worm or larva of an insect, called by scientific bugologists, Saperda bivittata. 1910 Sat. Evening Post 2 July 49/2 Nobody talked anything but boll-weevil and how to combat him. Government bugologists..studied his habits. 2000 B. Kingsolver Prodigal Summer xviii. 288 I love bugs, they're my favorite thing—did you know I'm actually a bugologist? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1843 |
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