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Bug

Pronunciation: /buːk/

“Bug” is a German word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. bow, prow (of a ship), nose (of an aircraft)
  2. shoulder joint (of an animal)
  3. joist, joint
  4. synonym of Biegung (“curve, place or way of bending”)
  5. crease
  6. bug

proper noun

  1. Bug (rivers in Eastern Europe)

Etymology

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 English 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.

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