Norfolk Howard
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Norfolk Howard
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Said to be an allusion to a person named Ephraim Bug, who advertised that in the future he would call himself by the more aristocratic name of Norfolk Howard.
noun Norfolk Howards
- A bedbug. All the insects he had sorted, / Placed in paper bags the insects, / In one bag the Norfolk Howards, / In one bag the fleas, the Jumpers […]
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@misc{norfolk_howard_2026,
title = {Norfolk Howard},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/norfolk%20howard},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
