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Noun[edit]
- (UK, school slang) A new pupil.
- 1987 September 17, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Dish and Dishonesty (Blackadder the Third), season 3, episode 1, spoken by Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne):
- Hello, chappie... You a new bug?
- 1993, Michael Morpurgo, The War of Jenkins' Ear:
- From the other end Porter was glaring at them. "Hey you! New bug!" The bath fell silent.
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References[edit]
- Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book[1], London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 139