bug
verb/bʌɡ/
/bʌɡ/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they bug | /bʌɡ/ /bʌɡ/ |
| he / she / it bugs | /bʌɡz/ /bʌɡz/ |
| past simple bugged | /bʌɡd/ /bʌɡd/ |
| past participle bugged | /bʌɡd/ /bʌɡd/ |
| -ing form bugging | /ˈbʌɡɪŋ/ /ˈbʌɡɪŋ/ |
- bug something to put a special device (= a bug) somewhere in order to listen secretly to other people’s conversations
- They bugged her hotel room.
- They were bugging his telephone conversations.
- A mobile phone can be used as a bugging device even when it is switched off.
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- bug somebody (informal) to annoy somebody
- Stop bugging me!
- It's something that's been bugging me a lot recently.
- She was really beginning to bug him.
- What's the matter? Is there something bugging you?
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Word Originearly 17th cent.: of unknown origin. Current verb senses date from the early 20th cent.
Idioms
See bug in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybug the hell/crap/shit out of somebody
- (offensive, slang) to annoy somebody very much
- The song just bugs the hell out of me.
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