blackbeetle

[blak-beet-l]

noun

1. oriental cockroach.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blackbeetle¹

black + beetle ¹

Example Sentences

She popped another blackbeetle into her mouth and then another, like someone with a bag of chocolate-covered raisins.

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

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A blackbeetle ran quickly across the gaudy oilcloth, and Michael sitting in this scrofulous kitchen had a presentiment that Daisy was right.

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

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

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