English Explanatory Dictionary

Norfolk Howard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bedbug.

Word forms

Norfolk Howard Norfolk Howards

Etymology

Said to be an allusion to a person named Ephraim Bug, who advertised that in the future he would call himself by the more aristocratic name of Norfolk Howard.

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