bug-ridden

adj — 2 senses

bug-ridden

adj

Etymology From bug + -ridden.

1

Of software Full of defects.

Bug-ridden codes cannot be trusted to yield good science, or even safe science. So beware! Quirky codes are really bug-ridden codes, except that the bugs are alive and well and you are the intended victims.2005, Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton, High Performance Computing and the Art of Parallel Programming […] , Routledge, →ISBN:

2

Full of insects.

In the capital of the Reich, in the city of the “illustrious Führer” of all places, in the largest prison in Germany, everything was filthy, bug-ridden, and filled with lice.2000, Hester Baer, transl., The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, Wayne State University Press, translation of original by Nanda Herbermann, →ISBN, page 106:

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