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Definition of Tumblebugs
1. tumblebug [n] - See also: tumblebug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumblebugs
Literary usage of Tumblebugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Butterflies and Bees: The Insect Folk : Volume II by Margaret Warner Morley (1905)
"No, May; not all the tumblebugs are black. Some are very beautiful in color, ...
Yes, you have all seen the shining green or bronze- colored tumblebugs, ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"tumblebugs at work and at play. S. Singleton. Country Life. 19: sup. 564. Ap.
1, '11. See д/яо Fireflies. Beets and beet sugar. Great sugar project. ..."
3. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"Sowbugs were highly esteemed ; earwigs and emmets, which sometimes crept into
the ears, were good for deafness and were given in oil; tumblebugs for some ..."
4. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1900)
"Sowbugs were highly esteemed ; earwigs and emmets, which sometimes crept into
the ears, were good for deafness and were given in oil; tumblebugs for some ..."
5. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"Survival of the fittest adaptation, And all their other evolution terms, Seem to
omit one small consideration, To wit, that tumblebugs and ..."
6. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee (1904)
"Earwigs and emmets taken internally were good for deafness; tumblebugs cured rabies.
The scrapings of human skulls, a liquid called " mummy," distilled from ..."
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