Buggy
['bʌgɪ] or ['bʌɡi]
Definition
(noun.) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse.
(adj.) infested with bugs .
Checked by Jo--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.
(n.) A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
(n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
Checked by Casey
Definition
n. a name given to several kinds of light carriages or gigs—in America a light one-horse four-wheeled vehicle with one seat; in England two-wheeled; in India provided with a hood to ward off the sun.
Checker: Myrna
Examples
- For heaven's sake see if my buggy's at the door. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What is a buggy, Papa? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Look at them with their hooked beaks, Becky said, getting into the buggy, her picture under her arm, in great glee. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Here the conversation was interrupted by the approach of a small one-horse buggy to the inn. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Joseph wants me to see if his--his buggy is at the door. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The stock is delivered to the charging floor in iron boxes loaded on narrow-gauge buggies, and is charged into the furnaces by electric charging machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The ore is loaded into small buggies at the mines and run down an inclined plane, where it is dumped into railroad cars for transportation to the shipping wharves, seventeen miles distant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Inputed by Doris