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From the Slavic hydronym *bugъ / *buga.

the Bug

1. An East European river which flows northwest 450 miles through Belarus, Poland and Ukraine into the Baltic Sea. (Western Bug).
2. A river in Ukraine (Southern Bug), flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.

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Bug (plural Bugs)

1. (US, slang) A Volkswagen Beetle car.

   Synonym: Beetle

Bug (plural Bugs)

1. (slang) A Bugatti car.

• GBU, gub

From Middle High German buoc (“animal shoulder”), from Old High German buog (“animal shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōgu, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“arm; shoulder”). More at bough.

The common contemporary meaning “bow” (early 17th c.) is a semantic loan from Middle Low German bôch, from Old Saxon bōg, from the same Germanic noun.

• IPA^(key): /buːk/ (standard)

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• IPA^(key): /buːx/ (northern and central Germany, becoming rare for this word)
• Rhymes: -uːk, -uːx
• Homophones: buk (standard), Buch (regional)

Bug m (strong, genitive Buges or Bugs, plural Buge or Büge)

1. (nautical, aviation) bow, prow (of a ship), nose (of an aircraft)

   Antonym: Heck

2. (hunting, veterinary medicine) shoulder joint (of an animal)
3. (carpentry) joist, joint

From Middle High German buoc, deverbal from biegen.

• Like etymology 1 above.

Bug m (strong, genitive Buges or Bugs, plural Büge)

1. (dated, rare) synonym of Biegung (“curve, place or way of bending”)
   • 1930, Otto Zarek, Begierde – Roman einer Weltstadtjugend, Paul Zsolnay, page 107:

     Das Mädchen blickte sich im Bug der dunklen Straße noch einmal um; [...].

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2. (obsolete or dialectal) crease

• → Czech: puk
• → Slovak: puk

Borrowed from English bug.

• IPA^(key): /bak/

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• Homophones: back, Back

Bug m (strong, genitive Bugs, plural Bugs)

1. (computing) bug

   Synonyms: Fehler, Programmierfehler

From Polish Bug and Russian Буг (Bug).

• IPA^(key): /buːk/, /bʊk/

der Bug m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Bugs or des Bug)

1. Bug (rivers in Eastern Europe)

• “Bug, Schiffsvorderteil” in Duden online
• “Bug, Programmierfehler” in Duden online
• “Bug, Fluss in Osteuropa” in Duden online
• “Bug” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bug” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Borrowed from German Bug.

Bug f

1. (nautical) bow, prow (of a ship)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuk/

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: Bug
• Homophones: Bóg, bóg, buk, Buk

Derived from Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (biugan). Compare Russian Буг (Bug). Doublet of biga and Boh.

Bug m inan (related adjective bużański)

1. Bug, Western Bug (a river in Belarus, Poland and Ukraine)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Bug f

1. genitive plural of Buga

• Spring, P. (2015). Great Walls & Linear Barriers. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books

• Bug in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Bug in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Bug in PWN's encyclopedia