bug-ridden

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English

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Etymology

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From bug +‎ -ridden.

Adjective

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bug-ridden (comparative more bug-ridden, superlative most bug-ridden)

  1. (of software) Full of defects.
    • 2005, Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton, High Performance Computing and the Art of Parallel Programming [] [1], Routledge, →ISBN:
      Bug-ridden codes cannot be trusted to yield good science, or even safe science. So beware! Quirky codes are really bug-ridden codes, except that the bugs are alive and well and you are the intended victims.
  2. Full of insects.
    • 2000, Hester Baer, transl., The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, Wayne State University Press, translation of original by Nanda Herbermann, →ISBN, page 106:
      In the capital of the Reich, in the city of the “illustrious Führer” of all places, in the largest prison in Germany, everything was filthy, bug-ridden, and filled with lice.

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