bug

Signification

Noun

1. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
2. Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
3. (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
4. (informal) Any minibeast.
5. Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
6. (obsolete) A bedbug.
7. A problem that needs fixing.
8. A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
9. (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
10. (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
11. A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
12. A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
13. A lobster.
14. A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
15. A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
16. A semi-automated telegraph key.
17. (obsolete) Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
18. HIV.
19. A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
20. (slang) A trilobite.
21. (slang) Synonym of oil bug.
22. (slang) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
23. (slang) A young apprentice jockey.
24. Synonym of union bug.
25. (slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
26. (slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.

Verb

1. (informal) To annoy.
2. (informal) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
3. To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
4. To bulge or protrude.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʌɡ/

Étymologie

First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a bedbug), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), a conflation of two words:
# Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”), perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg ("ghost, hobgoblin"; compare Welsh bwgwl ("threat", older "fear")) or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin”, “snot”)). Or, from a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre.
# Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda (see sċearnbudda (“dung beetle”)), from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above (compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”)). More at bud.
The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.

Phrases

After writing a bug report , one should regularly check if someone responded .

Après avoir rédigé un rapport de bogue, il faut vérifier régulièrement si quelqu'un a répondu.