blackbeetle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of blackbeetle
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She popped another blackbeetle into her mouth and then another, like someone with a bag of chocolate-covered raisins.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
The diminishing scale, of what I would rather not meet in a narrow staircase at night, is, the burglar, rat, blackbeetle, ghost.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Even blackbeetles, as she often told herself, were God's creatures, and Mr Ogilvie, although he had deserted her, no doubt had finer sensibilities than a blackbeetle.
From Austin and His Friends by Frederic H. Balfour
It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss
On the whole, I'd rather meet a ghost, than a rat, or a blackbeetle, or a burglar.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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