bedbug
nounUS /ˈbɛdˌbʌɡ/
Etymology From bed + bug.
1
A small nocturnal insect pest of humans, of species Cimex lectularius (common bedbug) and Cimex hemipterus (tropical bedbug) that feeds on the blood of humans during sleep.
- Fiona rapidly discovered that the hotel was infested with bedbugs.
- In Morocco, love philtres are composed of yolk of egg and bedbugs.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 81:
2
Any similar insect of family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and certain other warm-blooded animals.
- Derived terms
- antibedbug, bedbuggy, bedbuglike, crazy as a bedbug, don't let the bedbugs bite