3.ġ/ someone who doodles on their school notes.Ģ/ a pet name for a cute blue-eyed, blond-haired boyġ/ the doodlebug next to me drew sweet pictures of eyeballs and skulls on my chem notes.īritish nickname given to the German V-1 Flying Bomb weapon during WWII. Morty liked to drop ants into doodlebug pits. (n) An ant-lion, an insect larva that digs conical pits in order to trap ants. See antlion, pill bug, doodlebug, doodle bug, roly poly, roly-poly, rolly polly, rollie pollie, slater, potato bug, carpenter, cheeselog 2.
It has some of the same slang names as the pill bug.ġ) The child dropped an ant into the doodlebug's pit, and watched in facination as the sand monster grabbed it.Ģ) The doodlebugs rolled up into tiny balls each time the children flicked them with their fingers.ģ) Maxie caught a doodlebug that couldn't roll up.
The most common slang names in America are roly poly and doodlebug.ģ) the sow bug (also a crustacean in the Order Isopoda), which looks much like the pillbug, except it can't roll up. English slang names include: roly poly (spelled many ways), doodlebug, woodlouse, woodbug, armadillo bug, ball bug, bowling ball bug, hardy back, potato bug, slater, chuggy pig, butcher boy, carpenter, cheesybug, cheeselog, daddy gamfer (also spelled daddy gampfer), beetle bug, and Granny Grey. Its various species are found all over the world. It is a true insect.Ģ) the pill bug (a crustacean, not an insect- Order: Isopoda). Find out how you can use this.1) the larval form of the antlion (also spelled ant lion), also known as a backward bug or backwards bug. © Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. If it landed on you, you would not have heard it - you would be dead anyway.
It was much bigger than a doodlebug and was more dangerous but it was not as scary as the doodlebug because it was so fast that you never saw it or heard it - until it landed with a loud "whomf" noise. The V2 was like a modern ballistic missile. In September 1944, the Germans started sending V2 rockets to London. If the engine stopped before it got to us that was the time to worry! Sometimes a doodlebug dropped to earth immediately and sometimes it would continue to glide, gradually losing height. Whenever we heard a doodlebug everyone looked up and followed it with their eyes until it had gone over past where we were standing. Then they simply fell to the ground and exploded. They kept flying until they ran out of fuel. They made a sound like a lorry engine going very fast. Thousands of these doodlebugs were launched against London. It looked like a small aeroplane and had no pilot - a bit like a cruise missile, but slightly bigger. A doodlebug was really a bomb with wings. In June 1944, the Germans started sending V1 Flying bombs to bomb London.
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