buggy
Other forms: buggies
A buggy is a cart with wheels that's pulled by a horse. In the 19th century, the most popular way to take short trips was in a horse and buggy.
Most people think of a horse pulling a carriage when they hear the word buggy, although you can use the term for other small vehicles, whether they're electric or powered by gasoline — like a golf buggy. If you use buggy to describe a camp site, however, you mean it's infested with insects. The origins of both meanings are uncertain, although the Middle English bugge, "something frightening" might be one root of the "full of bugs" definition.
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a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse
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infested with bugs
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informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
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Vocabulary lists containing buggy
Jessie learns that the 19th-century frontier village she lives in is actually a 20th-century tourist attraction — and she must venture out into the modern world to find life-saving medicine for her community.
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When eight-year-old Aref Al-Amri is told that his family will move halfway around the world from Muscat, Oman to Ann Arbor, Michigan, he refuses to pack, until his grandfather helps to create memories that can be carried into a new life.