bug ((1))

[? < F bougie lantern, candle]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1950 quote.

Quotations

1922

In front of me danced the vague shadow of Harry and the dim light thrown before him by the "bug."

1950

There was a hasty search for flashlights and "bugs," which were simply tin cans with a hole in the side through which a candle protruded. . . .

1963

In place of flashlights, they made [in the Yukon] what they called bugs out of empty . . . syrup cans.