Synonyms:
bug
Meaning: general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer
Meaning: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
Usage examples
The man behind is a big bug."
The bug could not grow in Earth-normal tissue.
"But one, day" continued the Bug, "a marvelous circumstance occurred that altered my very existence and brought me to my present pinnacle of greatness.
Crowded around it were thickets of papaw, wild grape-vines, thorn, dogwood, and red haw, that attracted bug and insect; and just across the old snake fence was a field of mellow mould sloping to the river, that soon would be plowed for corn, turning out numberless big fat grubs.
The sociology professor struck a responsive chord in us: for since our earliest years we had wigwagged to each other as Boy Scouts, learned the finger alphabet of the deaf and dumb so that we might maintain communication during school hours, strung a telegraph wire between our two homes, admired Poe's "Gold Bug" together and devised boyish cipher codes in which to send each other postcards when chance separated us.