redbug

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redbug

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From red +‎ bug.

redbug (plural redbugs)

Any member of the family Pyrrhocoridae of true bugs.
- 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
  Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg.
  "Gentle breeding," he continued, when I had found and scratched it,....