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tumblebug

[ tuhm-buhl-buhg ]

noun

  1. any of several dung beetles that roll balls of dung in which they deposit their eggs and in which the young develop.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tumblebug1

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805; tumble + bug 1
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The park says on its Facebook page that the tumblebug is one of the many beetles found in the Smokies that relies on animal scat to complete its life cycle.

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Fabre's book on the Sacred Beetle—the tumblebug of our fields and roadways—tells how the thing came out.

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A tumblebug zest, a nose pinched to sneering, a slurring tongue—with no more equipment you and I could draw a picture of Garfield as it is done in the fashion of to-day.

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Survival of the fittest, adaptation, And all their other evolution terms, Seem to omit one small consideration, To wit, that tumblebugs and angleworms Have souls: there's soul in everything that squirms.

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Survival of the fittest, adaptation, And all their other evolution terms, Seem to omit one small consideration, To wit, that tumblebugs and angleworms Have souls: there 's soul in everything that squirms.

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