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buggy (adj.)[buggy 词源字典]: "infested with bugs," 1774, from bug (n.) + -y (2).[buggy etymology, buggy origin, 英语词源]
grubby (adj.): "dirty," by 1845, from grub (n.) in a sense of "dirty child" (who presumably got that way from digging in earth) + -y (2). Earlier it was used in a sense of "stunted, dwarfish" (1610s) and "infested with grubs" (1725). Related: Grubbily; grubbiness.
infest (v.): late 15c., "to attack, assail, hurt, distress, annoy," from Middle French infester, from Latin infestare "to attack, disturb, trouble," from infestus "hostile, dangerous," originally "inexorable, not able to be handled," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + -festus "(able to be) seized." Sense of "swarm over in large numbers" first recorded c. 1600. Related: Infested; infesting.
lazaretto (n.): "house for reception of lepers and diseased poor persons," 1540s, from Italian lazareto "place set aside for performance of quarantine" (especially that of Venice, which received many ships from plague-infested districts in the East), from the Biblical proper name Lazarus. Meaning "building set apart for quarantine" is c. 1600 in English. The word in Italian was perhaps influenced by the name of another hospital in Venice, that associated with the church of Santa Maria di Nazaret.
lousy (adj.): mid-14c., lousi, "infested with lice," from louse + -y (2). Figurative use as a generic adjective of abuse dates from late 14c.; sense of "swarming with" (money, etc.) is American English slang from 1843. Related: Lousiness.
pediculous (adj.): "infested with lice; pertaining to lice," 1540s, from Latin pediculosus, from pediculus "louse" (see pediculosis).
Rhodes: Greek island, one of the Dodecanese, from Greek Rhodos, perhaps from rhodon "rose," or rhoia "pomegranate," but "more likely" [Room] from a pre-Greek name, from Phoenician erod "snake," for the serpents which were said to have anciently infested the island.
phthiriasis: "Infestation with lice; (in later use) specifically infestation with pubic (crab) lice (Phthirus pubis)", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Elyot (c1490–1546), humanist and diplomat. From classical Latin phthīriāsis infestation with lice from ancient Greek ϕθειρίασις from ϕθειριᾶν to be infested with lice (from ϕθείρ louse: see note) + -σις.
verminate: "Breed or become infested with vermin", Late 17th century: from Latin verminat- 'full of worms', from the verb verminare, from vermis 'worm'.