Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 bugge, byg. [Etymology unknown: cf. BIG, BOG a. and BUDGE a.] Pompous; big; proud, conceited, fine. (Still widely prevalent dial.)
1567. Drant, Horace’s De Arte P., A. viij. Bugge verses which cum to the stage With waight of wordes alone.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. III. III. lxiii. Then ’gins she [the moon] swell, and waxen bug with horn. Ibid. (1682), Annot. Glanvill’s Lux O., 55. A Bug and sturdy Mendicant, that pretends to be some person of Quality.
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), s.v., How bug y’ are o’ yer new cloo’es!
