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    1 month ago

    From Wikipedia:

    First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a “bedbug”), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), from Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”)

    No way did it initially mean hemiptera, and it is awfully broad now, see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bug noun def 4