Definitions for bedbug

bedbug bed·bug

Spelling: [bed-buhg]
IPA: /ˈbɛdˌbʌg/

Bedbug is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in bedbug (bbdegu).

Definitions for bedbug

noun

  1. a flat, wingless, bloodsucking hemipterous insect, Cimex lectularius, that infests houses and especially beds.
  2. any of several other bloodsucking bugs of the family Cimicidae.

Origin of bedbug

First recorded in 1800-10; bed + bug1

Examples for bedbug

The bedbug has not been seen in a year in Porto Rico, though there is no reason why it should not be here.

Well, I should eat a bedbug, if you can surpass it in this old town for dazzle.

The physiology and activity of the bedbug (Cimex lectularius L.) in a natural infestation.

I've just been bit be a bedbug—an' I t'ought there wasn't a bedbug in the ship!

The experimenters doubted that the bedbug is a carrier of the virus in nature.

It made a luxurious bed, and quite free from vermin; for a bedbug will never approach a bearskin.

But on the subject of the Terran Federation, he's crazy as a bedbug.

Two years ago I had occasion to visit 21— Armour Avenue, a “50-cent house” in the infamous “bedbug row district.”

He has found the parasite in all stages of development in the bedbug.

While I was working in this way, getting more enraged every moment, a bedbug ran out of the seam between my fingers.

Word Value for bedbug
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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