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Bugbane
- noun - a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
- North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
Bugging
- verb - annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?"
Bulging
- verb - bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- bulge outward; "His eyes popped"
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- curving or bulging outward
- curving outward
- swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal"
Bulking
- verb - cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack"
Bulling
- verb - advance in price; "stocks were bulling"
- push or force; "He bulled through his demands"
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
- try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
Bumming
- verb - ask for and get free; be a parasite
- be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
Bumping
- verb -
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
- dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"
- knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
- remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
Bunging
- verb - close with a cork or stopper
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"