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I went fishing today on the madison river in yellowstone national park and caught nothing. we went at 8 am and used wooly bugge | Field & Stream
I went fishing today on the madison river in yellowstone national park and caught nothing. 2009
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This sports term comes from the old English word * bugge*, which means demon.
Origins Friday 2007
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_ That's a meere bugge-beare, an impossible mocke.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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They said it _bugge_ or even _bwg_, but then they were more afraid of specters in those days than we, who imprison will-o'-the-wisps in Very lights, and rub fox-fire on our watch faces.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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Africh man mid þat he haueð mai bugge heueriche 65 þe mare haueþ ⁊ þe þe lesse {;} baþe hi | muȝen iliche. [f. 61r
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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‘Iudas, thou most to Iurselem, oure mete for to bugge;
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick
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Translation of the Bible, which he received from R.v. L.R. Ayre, who possesses a copy of date 1553, from which it appears that Psalm xci. 5 was thus translated by Matthew, who adopted his translation from Coverdale and Tyndale: ” “So that thou shalt not need to be afrayed for any bugge by nyght, nor for the arrow that flyeth by day [16].”
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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[Full mild were the words he spoke to Judas] "Judas thou most to Jurselem, oure mete for to bugge;
Judas 1300
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