firebug
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of firebug
Example Sentences
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Organizers have prepared a form and a mobile app to help people identify and report their firebug and lacewing sightings during this year’s two insect-counting events.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024
Outside, hundreds of bright red firebug beetles jockey for relief from the spring chill in a sliver of sunlight.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2022
He is a firebug who collects Herb Alpert records and talks about Marx and Nietzsche.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015
Fitzgerald may also have had Police Chief William Sears in mind, who earlier had let it out that he “feared a catastrophe if the firebug is not apprehended.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2014
They think I’m a thief and a firebug.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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