Adjective: buggy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | buggier |
| Superlative | buggiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
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You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy. [2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, page 106:]
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Posting the selfies on Instagram, where limbs are noodly or eyes are buggy, is meant to be silly, making it seem like the photographers take themselves — and social media — less seriously. [2022 July 3, Kalley Huang, “The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2025:]
Adjectives inflected like buggy
syrupy,
seemly,
seggsy,
snuffy,
snippy,
snitty,
sniffy,
snotty,
snouty,
snobby,
snoozy,
snooty,
snazzy,
snappy,
snarky,
snarly,
snassy,
snaily,
snacky,
snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English bug
3. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
4. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *-g
6. Old English -iġ
7. Middle English -y
8. English -y
9. English buggy
10. From bug + -y.
Verbs referencing "buggy"
Dutch Adjectives
buggy.