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单词 bugology
释义

bugologyn.

Brit. /bʌˈɡɒlədʒi/, U.S. /bəˈɡɑlədʒi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bug n.2, -ology comb. form.
Etymology: < bug n.2 + -ology comb. form.Compare the following slightly earlier instance of bed bugology ( < bedbug n. + -ology comb. form):1840 S.-Carolina Temperance Advocate 6 Aug. 20/1 For our opinion of Bed Bugology see chapter on Bed Bugs under Editorial head.
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.
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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).
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