doodlebug

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While stationed in Liverpool as a Royal Air Force physical training instructor, a doodlebug landed near Max, perforating his eardrums and leading to a spell laid up in hospital.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2019

In June 1944, George Orwell's flat in Mortimer Crescent was destroyed by a doodlebug.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013

It seemed heavy with the weight of its own folklore: chover, billywitch, bummler, doodlebug, mitchamador, midsomerdor, may-bug, June-bug.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012

He stands at the back of his doodlebug, put-putting along at four to twelve miles an hour.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then to himself he muttered: "An' that doodlebug Billy Jordan thinkin' he knowed more about th' Panhandle than me!"

From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Mulford, Clarence Edward