Bug and Devil

noun

• General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
• A fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine.
  • synonyms: glitch
• A small hidden microphone; for listening secretly.
• Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.
  • synonyms: hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron
• A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use.
  • synonyms: microbe, germ

verb

• Annoy persistently.
  • usage: "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
  • synonyms: tease, badger, pester, beleaguer
• Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information.
  • usage: "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged"
  • synonyms: wiretap, tap, intercept

• (n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
• (n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
• (n.) A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
• (n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
• (n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.

noun

• Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. ( chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell)
  • synonyms: Satan, Old Nick, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness
• An evil supernatural being.
  • synonyms: fiend, demon, daemon, daimon
• A word used in exclamations of confusion.
  • usage: "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say"
  • synonyms: deuce, dickens
• A rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man. )
  • usage: "he chased the young hellions out of his yard"
  • synonyms: hellion, heller
• A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
  • synonyms: monster, fiend, demon, ogre

verb

• Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.
  • usage: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
  • synonyms: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe
• Coat or stuff with a spicy paste.
  • usage: "devilled eggs"

• (v.t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
• (v.t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
• (n.) An evil spirit; a demon.
• (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
• (n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
• (n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
• (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
• (n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.