Definitions for bugeye

bugeye bug·eye

Spelling: [buhg-ahy]
IPA: /ˈbʌgˌaɪ/

Bugeye is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in bugeye (beeguy).

Definitions for bugeye

noun

  1. a ketch-rigged sailing vessel used on Chesapeake Bay.

Origin of bugeye

1880-85, Americanism; bug1 + eye, after the former practice of painting a large eye on each bow

Examples for bugeye

From the dugout have come the piragua, Rose's tobacco boat, and the Chesapeake Bay canoe and bugeye as we see them today.

When we came to the surface we noticed a "bugeye" (a small schooner) "hove to" about fifty yards to the leeward.

The crew started forward and the Captain held the bugeye to its course to the strange island.

In essence the bugeye was a large canoe, fully decked, with a fixed rig following that of the brogan.

Word Value for bugeye
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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