bedbug

English

an adult bedbug

Alternative forms

• bed bug, bed-bug

Etymology

From bed +‎ bug.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛdˌbʌɡ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bedbug (plural bedbugs)

1. A small nocturnal insect pest of humans, of species Cimex lectularius (common bedbug) and Cimex hemipterus (tropical bedbug) that feeds on the blood of humans during sleep.

   Synonyms: (obsolete UK slang) mahogany flat, (obsolete UK slang) Norfolk Howard, (slang) B-flat

   Fiona rapidly discovered that the hotel was infested with bedbugs.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 81:

     In Morocco, love philtres are composed of yolk of egg and bedbugs.

2. Any similar insect of family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and certain other warm-blooded animals.

Derived terms

• bedbuggy
• crazy as a bedbug
• don't let the bedbugs bite

Translations

small nocturnal insect pest of humans

• Afrikaans: weeluis
• Albanian: kore (sq) m
• Arabic: بَقّ m (baqq)

  Egyptian Arabic: بق (baʔʔ)

  Moroccan Arabic: بق (baqq)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܦܫܦܫܐ m (pešpšā)

• Armenian: փայտոջիլ (hy) (pʻaytoǰil)
• Assamese: উৰহ (uroh), কাপোৰ-ওকণী (kapür-ükoni)
• Balinese: titih
• Banjarese: pampijit, tempijit
• Bashkir: ҡандала (qandala)
• Basque: zimitz
• Belarusian: пасце́льны клоп m (pascjélʹny klop), клоп m (klop)
• Bislama: stingfli
• Bulgarian: креватна дървеница f (krevatna dǎrvenica)
• Catalan: xinxa (ca) f, xinxa de llit f
• Cebuano: kuting, dugho
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臭蟲 / 臭虫 (zh) (chòuchóng), 壁蝨 / 壁虱 (zh) (bìshī), 蜰蟲 / 蜰虫 (zh) (féichóng), 床蝨 / 床虱 (zh) (chuángshī)

• Czech: štěnice (cs) f
• Dalmatian: cinko m
• Danish: væggelus c
• Dutch: bedwants (nl) m or f, wandluis (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: cimo (eo), litcimo
• Estonian: voodilutikas
• Faroese: veggjalús f
• Finnish: lude (fi), lutikka (fi)
• French: punaise (fr) f, punaise de lit (fr) f, punaise des lits (fr) f
• Georgian: ბაღლინჯო (baɣlinǯo)
• German: Wanze (de) f, Bettwanze f, Hauswanze f, Wandlaus f (older term)
• Greek: κοριός (el) m (koriós)

  Ancient: κόρις m (kóris)

• Hawaiian: ʻuku lio
• Hebrew: פשפש \ פִּשְׁפֵּשׁ (he) m (pishpésh), פשפשאי מיטה
• Hindi: खटमल (hi) m (khaṭmal)
• Hungarian: poloska (hu), ágyi poloska (hu), vérszívó poloska, házi poloska
• Icelandic: veggjalús f
• Ido: cimo (io)
• Indonesian: kepinding (id), kutu busuk (id), bangsat (id), tinggi (id), pijat-pijat (id)
• Ingrian: lucikkain
• Irish: míol leapa m
• Isthmus Zapotec: bidi
• Italian: cimice (it) f, cimice da letto f, cimice dei letti f
• Japanese: 床虱 (ja) (とこじらみ, tokojirami), 南京虫 (ja) (なんきんむし, nankinmushi), 床虫 (ja) (とこむし, tokomushi)
• Javanese: tinggi (jv)
• Kannada: ತಿಗಣೆ (kn) (tigaṇe)
• Kapampangan: suldut
• Khmer: សង្កើច (km) (sɑŋkaəc)
• Kikuyu: ngũngũni class 9/10
• Korean: 빈대 (ko) (bindae)
• Kyrgyz: кантала (ky) (kantala)
• Ladino: chincha f
• Lao: ເຮືອດ (hư̄at), ໂຕເຮືອດ (tō hư̄at)
• Latin: cīmex m
• Latvian: blakts f
• Laz: მკორიდა (mǩorida)
• Lithuanian: patalinė blakė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Wandluus f

• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Luhya: ebisururi
• Macedonian: тавтабита f (tavtabita)
• Malay: pijat, pijat-pijat
• Malayalam: മൂട്ട (ml) (mūṭṭa)
• Maltese: baqq
• Manx: meeyl lhiabbagh f
• Mi'kmaq: tepine's anim
• Middle English: maddok
• Mongolian: бясаа (mn) (bjasaa)
• Navajo: wóósitsʼílí
• Norman: bog'se f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: veggedyr (no) n, veggdyr n, veggelus m or f

  Nynorsk: veggedyr n, veggdyr n, veggelus f

• Ojibwe: minaagojiisi
• Old Norse: veggjalús f
• Ottoman Turkish: تخته قوروسی (tahta kurusu)
• Persian: ساس (fa) (sâs)
• Piedmontese: simes f
• Polish: pluskwa (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: κορίδιν n (korídin), κόρδα f (kórda)
• Portuguese: percevejo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਖਟਮਲ m (khaṭmal)
• Romanian: ploșniță (ro) f, păduche de pat
• Romansch: pidra da letg f
• Russian: клоп (ru) m (klop), посте́льный клоп (ru) m (postélʹnyj klop)
• Scottish Gaelic: bògas na h-oidhche m
• Shan: ႁိူတ်ႈ (shn) (hōet)
• Slovak: ploštica posteľná f
• Slovene: stenica (sl) f
• Spanish: chinche (es) f, chinche de cama f
• Sundanese: tumbila (su)
• Swahili: kunguni (sw)
• Swedish: vägglus (sv) c
• Tagalog: surot
• Tajik: сос (sos)
• Tamil: மூட்டைப் பூச்சி (ta) (mūṭṭaip pūcci)
• Telugu: నల్లి (te) (nalli)
• Thai: เรือด (th) (rʉ̂ʉat), ตัวเรือด (dtua rêuat)
• Tibetan: འདྲེ་ཤིག ('dre shig)
• Tok Pisin: musmus
• Turkish: tahtakurusu (tr)
• Turkmen: tagtabit
• Ukrainian: пості́льний клоп m (postílʹnyj klop), клоп m (klop)
• Urdu: کھٹمل m (khaṭmal)
• Vietnamese: rệp (vi)
• Volapük: pünet (vo)
• Waigali: güza
• Welsh: pycsen f
• Yakut: хаптаҕай (qaptağay)
• Yiddish: וואַנץ f (vants)
• Zhuang: rwed
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

• bedbug on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cimex lectularius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cimex lectularius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• gubbed