bug-walk

English

Etymology

Presumably in reference to the bedbugs that might infest it.

Noun

bug-walk (plural bug-walks)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A bed.
    • 1887, Truth, volume 21, page 38:
      […] Who, when he encounters an over-filled guest, / Either staggering homewards or taking his rest, / Sees him safe to his bug-walk […]
    • 1969, Kovave, volumes 1-5, page 38:
      There would be no more visiting in that direction for a while, and back he would roost in his 'bug-walk'.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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