BUGGY
What does "BUGGY" mean?
A light carriage or small vehicle; also software full of errors.
Meanings
- A light, usually horse-drawn carriage or a small open vehicle. They rode into town in a dusty old buggy.
- A baby's pushchair or pram (British English). She folded the buggy and lifted it onto the bus.
- Containing many software bugs; not working reliably. The early release was so buggy it crashed on launch. informal
- Infested with or full of insects. The cabin was hot, damp, and buggy by July. informal
Did you know?
- 'Buggy' software has a literal insect ancestor: in 1947 Grace Hopper's team taped a real moth into a logbook beside the note 'first actual case of bug being found' after it jammed a relay in the Harvard Mark II computer.
Word origin
The carriage sense is of uncertain 18th-century origin; the 'full of software errors' sense comes from 'bug', a term for a technical defect popularized in early computing.
Remember it
BUGGY = BUG + GY; whether it's a real bug in the code or a bug on the seat, the word carries pests either way.
A little poem
One buggy rolls on wheels through quiet lanes;
another crashes, riddled, in the code-
both named for the small thing nobody explains.
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Wordplay
- The programmer bought a horse-drawn buggy to escape his buggy software. Now both keep breaking down.
What it teaches
Every system, on wheels or in code, has the bugs you built and the ones that crawled in.
Quick facts
What does BUGGY mean?
A light carriage or small vehicle; also software full of errors.
Is BUGGY a valid word?
Yes — BUGGY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BUGGY?
BUGGY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does BUGGY come from?
The carriage sense is of uncertain 18th-century origin; the 'full of software errors' sense comes from 'bug', a term for a technical defect popularized in early computing.
What can BUGGY teach us?
Every system, on wheels or in code, has the bugs you built and the ones that crawled in.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.