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語源

From litter +‎ bug. Coined in 1947 by New York copywriter Paul B. Gioni for The American Ad Council, perhaps punning on jitterbug.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈlɪtɚˌbʌɡ/

名詞

litterbug (plural litterbugs)

1. (informal) A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up.

   Synonym: litter lout

   • 1967, Arlo Guthrie, “Alice's Restaurant”:

     […] I mean I'm sittin' here, on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug

   • 2021 January 8, Nicole Hemmer, “The striking parallels between the assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol”, in CNN‎:

     Pretending a litterbug and a spree killer have committed equivalent infractions doesn’t make people safer.

   • 2023 April 18, Sam Roberts, “John J. Doherty, Stalwart Sanitation Commissioner, Dies at 84”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2024-12-26:

     Mr. Doherty was known to publicly berate litterbugs and upbraid motorists whose stranded cars prevented plows from clearing snow.

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