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bugging up

bugging up is the present participle and gerund of bug up.

Meaning of bug up

Verb

bug up (third-person singular simple present bugs up, present participle bugging up, simple past and past participle bugged up)

  1. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To deliberately annoy or irk someone; to deliberately start a conflict with someone.
  2. (transitive) To install a bug (listening device) on a person, thing or place.

Questions about bugging up

What is bugging up the present participle and gerund of?
Bugging up is the present participle and gerund of bug up.

Words near bugging up in the dictionary

  1. bugging
  2. bugging down
  3. bugging in
  4. bugging off
  5. bugging out
  6. bugging up
  7. buggings
  8. Buggins
  9. Buggins's turn
  10. buggish
  11. Buggs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugging up (page history and authors); bug up (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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