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View synonyms for lightning bug

lightning bug

noun



lightning bug

noun

  1. another name for the firefly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lightning bug1

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80
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Example Sentences

In reality it is only the female which is the lightning bug, for the male is not equipped with any lighting power.

It was a rare kind, and I almost had one when a mosquito bit me and I had to let the lightning-bug go.

I want to get a new specimen of a lightning-bug I noticed in the garden.

Long and narrow, it looked like a kalsomined cave illumined by a lightning bug in a bottle when he turned the electric switch.

"Nothing doing on the carpenter's bench," he said, flashing the "lightning bug" toward the site of the engine house.

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