buggish /ˈbʌɡɪʃ/ adjective4 •Characteristic of or resembling a bug; buglike.'What?' Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers. — 1996 •(slang) Crazy.Now asked sweet mama to let me be her kid She says I might get buggish I couldn't keep it hid. — 1930 •(dialect, no longer used) Uppity."Thought you big-buggish, and set up, with all those fine things; and I should have felt just so," answered Mrs. Thorp. — 1873 •(no longer used) Frightening; like a bugbear.Of father Anchises thee goast and grislye resemblaunce, When the day dooth vannish, when lights eke starrye be twinckling, In sleepe mee monisheth, with visadge buggish he feareth. — 1879 formsmore buggish · most buggish