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Jesus bug

Jesus bug noun: synonym of water strider (“an insect of the family Gerridae”).

Noun

Jesus bug (plural Jesus bugs)

  1. Synonym of water strider (“an insect of the family Gerridae”).
    Synonyms:
    water strider
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jesus, bug.
    • I was twenty when I first caught the Jesus bug. It took another two years before I even considered visiting a church.2020 January 29, Justin Rosolino, Idiot, Sojourning Soul: A Post-Secular Pilgrimage, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29

Synonyms of Jesus bug

Forms of Jesus bug

pluralJesus bugs

Origin of Jesus bug

In the case of the water strider, allusion to the miracle of Jesus Christ walking on water.

Questions about Jesus bug

What does Jesus bug mean?
Jesus bug means synonym of water strider (“an insect of the family Gerridae”).
What part of speech is Jesus bug?
Jesus bug is a noun.
What is the plural of Jesus bug?
The plural of Jesus bug is Jesus bugs.

Words near Jesus bug in the dictionary

  1. Jesus bars
  2. Jesus bird
  3. Jesus birds
  4. Jesus boot
  5. Jesus boots
  6. Jesus bug
  7. Jesus bugs
  8. Jesus Christ
  9. Jesus Christ lizard
  10. Jesus Christmas
  11. Jesus Christs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jesus 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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