buggier; buggiest
1
: infested with bugs
a buggy swamp
2
: characterized by bugs
especially
: containing many bugs
a buggy software program
plural buggies
1
: a light one-horse carriage made with two wheels in England and with four wheels in the U.S.
2
: a small cart or truck for short transportations of heavy materials
3
Synonyms
Examples of buggy in a Sentence
Adjective
It's too buggy out here—let's go inside.
Noun
He rode into town on his horse and buggy.
we'll need a new buggy if we have another baby
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Tom Warren, The Verge, 26 July 2024
The only other time Grenier recalls a massive outage that came close to this was the buggy McAfee update in 2010.
—Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
At the simplest, Windows could disable buggy drivers.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 23 July 2024
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Adjective
Microsoft is still helping CrowdStrike clean up the mess that kicked off a week ago when 8.5 million PCs went offline due to a buggy CrowdStrike update.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 26 July 2024
The only other time Grenier recalls a massive outage that came close to this was the buggy McAfee update in 2010.
—Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
Noun
And the fact that malware is often buggy makes crashes more likely and crash reports valuable to attackers as well for understanding what went wrong with their code.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
At the simplest, Windows could disable buggy drivers.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 23 July 2024
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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buggy. Accessed 20 Aug. 2024.
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buggy
1 of 2 adjective
bug·gy
ˈbəg-ē 
buggier; buggiest
: full of bugs
it's too buggy outside
a buggy computer program
buggy
2 of 2 noun
plural buggies
1
: a light carriage having a single seat and drawn by one horse
2
: a hand-pushed carriage for a baby
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