doodlebug
Example Sentences
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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
Football carried on during that war and the club would have games stopped when a doodlebug went across.
From The Guardian • May 13, 2017
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 unsuccessfully backed local horseracing and doodlebug enterprises.
From Time Magazine Archive
That old doodlebug only thinks of the silly specimens that he is going to collect down here.
From The White Waterfall by Dwyer, James Francis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
