blackbeetle

[ blak-beet-l ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

If a blackbeetle crawls across it it suffers a sort of paralysis.

Worst of all, I was victimised by the presence of a blackbeetle in a plate of clear soup served me at my club.

It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle.

The blackbeetle problem they solve by planting tomato slips inclosed in paper.

Shouting would frighten a burglar, or a rat, but would have no effect on a blackbeetle, or a ghost.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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