buggy
(adjective) infested with bugs
balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”
buggy, roadster
(noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse
Source: WordNet® 3.1
buggy (plural buggies)
A small horse-drawn cart.
A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
A hearse.
(UK) A pushchair; a stroller.
(Canada, southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.
• (pushchair): stroller
buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)
Infested with insects
(computing) Containing programming errors
Resembling an insect
(slang) Crazy; bughouse
Source: Wiktionary
Bug"gy, a. Etym: [From Bug.]
Definition: Infested or abounding with bugs.
Bug"gy, n.; pl. Buggies.
1. A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle. [Eng.] Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy. Beaconsfield.
2. A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top. [U.S.] Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver.
– Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also sulky plow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
