Source : WordNet®

bug
     v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of
          his stammer" [syn: {tease}, {badger}, {pester}, {beleaguer}]
     2: 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?" [syn: {wiretap}, {tap}, {intercept}]
     [also: {bugging}, {bugged}]

bug
     n 1: general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling
          invertebrate
     2: a fault or defect in a system or machine [syn: {glitch}]
     3: a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
     4: insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and
        leathery at the base; usually show incomplete
        metamorphosis [syn: {hemipterous insect}, {hemipteran}, {hemipteron}]
     5: a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium);
        the term is not in technical use [syn: {microbe}, {germ}]
     [also: {bugging}, {bugged}]

bugging
     See {bug}