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Meanings of May bug in English
Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
Synonyms
Examples for "June beetle"
Examples for "June beetle"
1
Her vivacity was as disturbing as the incessant buzzing of a June beetle.
2
Well, then, what right have I, an entire stranger, to come blundering along like a June beetle and disturb your rest?
3
I lighted my lamp, and, with the June beetles butting at my head, I wrote all night.
4
If you have half the horror of those great June beetles that she has, you will know how she jumped.
5
On the screens of the open windows the June beetles knock their heads, like theologues who wish they could get in.
1
Let's not forget, Eve Blackwell was as crazy as a June bug.
2
He turned away discreetly, and snapped up a plump June bug.
3
You can't fool me now-andI'm crazy as a June bug!
4
Why, just as Washington says, we've been swallowed up like a duck gobbling a June bug.
5
He felt as if he were a June bug buzzing helplessly at the end of a string.
1
While I was writing this paper the chief enemy of the strawberry came blundering and bumping about my lamp-theMay beetle.
2
It also eats a small amount of newly planted corn, but at the same time clears the field of May beetles.
Usage of May bug in English
1
Suddenly some May bugs flew in through the window, but no one noticed them.
2
To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial one was expected.