English Dictionary

doodlebug

noun

(informal, Britain) The V-1 flying bomb. / (historical, "doodlebug tractor") An automobile converted into a cheap tractor for a small farm during the Second World War.

I saw a doodlebug crawling on the ground.

意味（1）

(informal, Britain) The V-1 flying bomb.

Soon after Richard was adopted, Orwell's flat was wrecked by a doodlebug.

意味（2）

(historical, "doodlebug tractor") An automobile converted into a cheap tractor for a small farm during the Second World War.

意味（3）

(entomology) An antlion larva (Myrmeleontidae).

意味（4）

(entomology, UK) An cockchafer (genus Melolontha).

意味（5）

(entomology, regional) A woodlouse.

Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. They include roly-poly, pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium), sow bug, doodle bug, carpenter (Newfoundland),[…] cheesybug (Kent), and cheeselog.

意味（6）

(informal) A term of endearment.

意味（7）

(informal) A slackard or time-waster.

意味（8）

(informal) An idiot.

意味（9）

(informal) Someone who draws constantly.

意味（10）

(informal) A divining rod or similarly intended device.

意味（11）

(obsolete) Individual self-propelled train cars.