doodle-bug

doodle-bug
doodle-bug type of beetle or larvae, c.1866, Southern U.S. dialect; see DOODLE (Cf. doodle) + BUG (Cf. bug) (n.). The same word was applied 1944 in R.A.F. slang to German V-model flying bombs.

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