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A horse-drawn time machine that lost its horse and gained a baby.
means As a noun, a light carriage or small wheeled vehicle for a person (now often a baby carriage); as an adjective, either infested with bugs or, in computing, riddled with errors.
from The vehicle sense appeared in late 18th-century English, a 'buggy' carriage of obscure origin — no one is quite sure why it was called that. The adjective comes straight from 'bug': literally 'full of bugs' (insects), with 'bug' meaning insect itself dating to around the 1600s, possibly from Middle English 'bugge,' a frightening thing or hobgoblin. The software sense rides on the engineering tradition of calling a glitch a 'bug,' so a program full of glitches is, naturally, buggy.
- Word origin
- Nobody knows where the name came from
- Software twin
- Same word means code riddled with errors
- Dune buggy
- Built for sand, beaches, and reckless joy
- Amish staple
- Still the daily ride for many communities
- Baby version
- British word for a stroller
stanley cup buggy — horse-drawn carriage used by lord stanley of preston in canada, 1890s
moon buggy — lunar roving vehicle driven by apollo astronauts on the moon, 1971-1972
beach buggy — dune buggy popularized in california coastal towns during 1960s-70s
software bug — unintended defect in programs, term coined by grace hopper at harvard, 1947