beetle

to gather / to collect / to assemble

a hobby (activity done for enjoyment in spare time) / one's taste (set of preferences)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to put together, to gather, to collect

being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is

bad taste

interest in Communism / Communist topics as a casual hobby