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buggy

buggy

1 3.8
Full of small insects like mosquitoes that bite or annoy you
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʌɡi/
translation icon : infestado
  • OK, first of all, one of the things that I bought were these shelf, the buggy shelves for my place because I wanted this like double shelf moment.
  • too buggy
  • humid and buggy
  • hot and buggy

Examples

  • They see you, me, and everyone else as either office furniture or someone buying their poorly made, buggy, easily broken, non-refundable, better only in terms of how it was marketed, and barely improved dross.

    Blog text (11)
  • It was getting to be a pain in the butt waiting for my wife to be in the right mood, especially when baseball or fastball season was on; it was too hot, too buggy, too cold, or just too much.

    Academic text (2010)
  • When Esteban finally reached the airport in Managua, it was nearly three in the morning, and the airport was closed. He sat down on his suitcase on the sidewalk in the humid, buggy night to wait for it to open.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • He lived now in a dusty, buggy walk-up with his daughter, who was now a fat nurse, while his wife studied the classics in some stifling, snowbound state up north.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The garden was so buggy that we had to apply insect repellent before entering.

  • During the summer, the picnic area can be quite buggy, especially near the water.

  • She quickly realized that the old cabin was infested and really buggy inside.

Synonyms

lousy
vsbuggy
9 7.4

Covered with lice on the hair or body

refers to infestation by any kind of insect rather than specific parasites
crawly
vsbuggy
  • Informal
4 6.1

Full of small animals like insects that crawl

is focused specifically on being infested by insects rather than any small animals
wormy
vsbuggy
2 6.0

Having holes or soft parts because worms have eaten it

describes insect infestation generally, not damage caused by worms
maggoty
vsbuggy
1 7.9

Food that is rotten and full of small white worm-like insects

means general insect infestation, not specifically decay or larvae presence
mothy
vsbuggy
7.8

Clothes or fabric that have holes made by small insects

covers any insect infestation, not only those that attack fabrics
vermicious
vsbuggy
  • Archaic
9.9

Infested with worms or small pests that harm things

means infestation by insects, not by worms or other noninsect parasites

Antonyms

1.0

Free from dirt or harmful things

1 3.3

Not having insects and mice that damage plants and stored food

Compounds

7 4.4

A small open car with large tires for driving on sand

Old-fashioned in a way from before cars

2 1.0

A small vehicle with four wheels that an adult pushes to carry a baby

buggy whip
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A tool that makes horses move when they pull a small carriage and now means something old-fashioned

A small open vehicle with large tires for driving on sand

8.6

A vehicle with big wheels and a high body for driving over marshes

8.0

A large vehicle with big wheels and a raised body that goes across wet, muddy land

How Infested

verminous
  • Offensive
1 9.2
buggy
1 3.8
pest-free
1 3.3

Surface Forms

buggy positive

Morphology

buggy = bug (transparent) = bug + y

The adjective means 'full of bugs' or 'having many bugs', which is a standard and easily interpretable use of -y.

Etymology

Buggy comes from the word bug, which means a small pest or insect, so if a place is buggy it is 'full of bugs'.