unbugged

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adjective

Not bugged; without covert surveillance equipment.

OriginEnglish bugged ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunbugged (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot bugged; without covert surveillance equipment.

    Is it perhaps appropriate to take them into account when comparing two closely related investigatory devices — such as the use of bugged and unbugged secret agents?

    1991, Ronald Jay Allen, Richard B. Kuhns, Constitutional criminal procedure

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishbugged
  9. Englishunbugged

From un- + bugged.

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APA

unbugged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbugged

MLA

“unbugged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbugged. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unbugged,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbugged.

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