Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorbug
Literary usage of Dorbug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth by Asa Greene (1833)
"... as if struck with a sudden idea, and giving his nose a thorough wipe—" it's
a dorbug." " A dorbug! you little silly fool, you !—you sweet cunning rogue. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... the Maybee- tle, or dorbug, has appeared unusually early in Freehold, NJ April
22d, I found numbers of well developed specimens in the streets under the ..."
3. Contemporaries by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1900)
"Repairs of meetinghouse & burying ground going on — a dorbug flew in at a window —
caused alarm of burglars — great excitement in the town. August 2. ..."
4. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"... shuffling along among the dew wet leaves, pouncing on a lizard here or a
blundering dorbug that has chanced to 'upset itself in midflight, ..."
5. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"... the night has to offer her, shuffling along among the dew wet leaves, pouncing
on a lizard here or a blundering dorbug that has chanced to upset itself ..."
6. Play in Education by Joseph Lee (1915)
"... banging against the walls and furniture and dropping on the floor after the
manner of an insane dorbug; or they will whirl until they are dizzy and fall ..."
7. The History and Pedagogy of American Student Societies by Henry Davidson Sheldon (1901)
"The High Pontiff proceeds, in even more direful language induced by his inspection
of the unlucky omens contained in the entrails of a dorbug, ..."
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