buggish

Adjective

1. Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike.
   • 'What?' Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers. - 1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave:
   • Clarence looks into his rearview mirror and finds that the small buggish car is still following him, and its horn beeps every few minutes. - 2000, Lana Witt, The Heart of a Thirsty Woman, page 177:
   • One second he's there and the next he detonates, ka-blam!, covering the ceiling, which has become ants, and the walls, which have become ants, and the floors, which have become ants, with, weh-hell, ants and more ants...
2. Uppity.
   • Meanwhile, rumour had been tramping about with her crescit eundô; and, long before the Faculty received our Scytala, they had heard her cry— "The Board has told Major Thorntree, the Faculty shall be tried and turned...
   • "Thought you big-buggish, and set up, with all those fine things; and I should have felt just so," answered Mrs. Thorp. - 1873 March, Ann S. Stephens, “The Lost Inheritance”, in The Peterson magazine, volume 63, number...
   • (Will I?) I, that I will; a fart for the bragger! He shall down if he give me but one buggish word. - 1906, John Stephen Farmer, Six Anonymous Plays, page 152:

   Synonyms: airy arrogant chesty authoritarian biggity big-headed blustery boastful lordly bombastic buggish cocky conceited disdainful domineering egotistical entitled flatulent flaunting full of oneself glorious grandiose hankty haught

3. Frightening; like a bugbear.
   • Of father Anchises thee goast and grislye resemblaunce, When the day dooth vannish, when lights eke starrye be twinckling, In sleepe mee monisheth, with visadge buggish he feareth. - 1879, Edward Arber, The English...
   • The buggish bishops cannot make such-a-one afraid; because they cannot take away one hair from our head until God give them leave, which I am sure He will not do, until such time as He shall see it most to His glory,...
   • But he also mocked the government for its exaggerated reation, its attempt to whip up fear over this plot — hues and Cries raised, fright bruted in the peoples eares, and all mens eyes filled with such a smoake, as...

   Synonyms: affreux alarming spine-tingling appalling awful eldritch buggish butt-clenching buttock-clenching dismayful dreadful fearful flaysome flesh-crawling formidable freaky frightening frightensome frightful ghastly ghostly grisly hair-curling hair-raising

4. Crazy.
   • Now asked sweet mama to let me be her kid She says I might get buggish I couldn't keep it hid. - 1930, Sleepy John Estes, Milk Cow Blues:
   • (see title) - 1938, Willie Bee (James), Washboard Sam, My baby's getting buggish:
   • Ohh, little girl got buggish, she throwed all of my clothes outdoors. - 2003, Paul Garon, The Devil's Son-in-law, page 19:

   Synonyms: 5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed crazy crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie crazy as a cootie bug