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doodle-bug

doodle-bug is the alternative spelling of doodlebug.

Meaning of doodlebug

Noun

doodlebug (plural doodlebugs)

  1. (UK, informal) The V-1 flying bomb.
    • Soon after Richard was adopted, Orwell's flat was wrecked by a doodlebug.2009, Robert McCrum, The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
  2. (historical, "doodlebug tractor") An automobile converted into a cheap tractor for a small farm during the Second World War.
  3. An antlion larva (Myrmeleontidae).
  4. (UK) A cockchafer (genus Melolontha).
  5. (regional) A woodlouse.
    • Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. They include roly-poly, pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium), sow bug, doodle bug, carpenter (Newfoundland),[…] cheesybug (Kent), and cheeselog.2018 June 25, “Pillbugs”, in Niles Biological, Inc., archived from the original on 21 Dec 2018
  6. (informal) A term of endearment.

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Forms of doodle-bug

pluraldoodle-bugs

Questions about doodle-bug

What is doodle-bug the alternative spelling of?
Doodle-bug is the alternative spelling of doodlebug.

Words near doodle-bug in the dictionary

  1. doodies up
  2. dooding
  3. doodinkus
  4. doodinkuses
  5. doodle
  6. doodle-bug
  7. doodle-bugs
  8. doodlebrain
  9. doodlebrains
  10. doodlebug
  11. doodlebugger

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