different between buggy vs huggy

English

Etymology

Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?.?i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Noun

buggy (plural buggies)

1. A small horse-drawn cart.
2. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
3. A hearse.
   • 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie

     Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back

4. (Britain) A pushchair; a stroller.
5. (Canada, Southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.

Synonyms

• (pushchair): stroller

Translations

Adjective

buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)

1. Infested with insects
2. (computing) Containing programming errors

   This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!

3. Resembling an insect
4. (slang) Crazy; bughouse
   • 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades (page 106)

     You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.

Derived terms

• baby buggy
• bugginess
• buggy eyes

Translations

References

• “buggy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English buggy.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?b?.?i/
• Hyphenation: bug?gy

Noun

buggy m (plural buggy's, diminutive buggy'tje n)

1. A baby buggy, a pushchair, a stroller.
2. A buggy (small motor vehicle).

Derived terms

• strandbuggy

Adjective

buggy (not comparable)

1. Buggy, containing programming errors.

Inflection

French

Etymology

From English buggy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœ.?i/

Noun

buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)

1. buggy (small vehicle)

Further reading

• “buggy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

hug +? -y

Adjective

huggy (comparative huggier, superlative huggiest)

1. (informal) Tending to hug; affectionate in a physical way.