bugged
/bʌɡd/
bugged is the simple past and past participle of bug.
Adjective
bugged (comparative more bugged, superlative most bugged)
Meaning of bug
Verb
bug (third-person singular simple present bugs, present participle bugging, simple past and past participle bugged)
- To annoy.
- Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
- To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- I'm worried about Wallace. He's been buggin' all week.
- To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.
- Synonyms:
- wire
- To bulge or protrude.
- I well remember the combination of excitement and apprehension with which I tentatively entered my first "rap." My eyes bugged open. There must have been 25 women in the room. I don't think I had ever seen so many lesbians all together in one place before.1979 April 28, Lois H. Johnson, “Ten Years of Boston DOB: A Personal Memoir”, in Gay Community News, page 8
- To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.
- You (or the autopilot) are still steering to the bugged heading […]1996 April 5, Tom Horne, “Engage FD, and follow the bars”, in AOPA Turbine Pilot
Synonyms of bugged
Forms of bugged
| comparative | more bugged |
|---|---|
| superlative | most bugged |
Words formed from bugged
Phrases with bugged
Words that rhyme with bugged
Questions about bugged
- What does bugged mean?
- Bugged means affected by a bug (computer error).
- What is bugged the simple past and past participle of?
- Bugged is the simple past and past participle of bug.
- What part of speech is bugged?
- Bugged is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bugged?
- Bugged is pronounced /bʌɡd/.
Words near bugged in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugged (page history and authors); bug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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