new bug
English
Noun
new bug (plural new bugs)
- (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, Morpurgo, Michael, The War of Jenkins' Ear:
- From the other end Porter was glaring at them. "Hey you! New bug!" The bath fell silent.
-
Synonyms
- fresher, freshman, novi (Tonbridge School), puny (Oxford University), shadow (Westminster School)
Hypernyms
- See Thesaurus:beginner
References
- Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book, London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 139