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cockroach
[ kok-rohch ]
noun
- any of numerous orthopterous insects of the family Blattidae, characterized by a flattened body, rapid movements, and nocturnal habits and including several common household pests.
cockroach
/ ˈkɒkˌrəʊtʃ /
noun
- See mantis, German cockroachany insect of the suborder Blattodea (or Blattaria ), such as Blatta orientalis ( oriental cockroach or black beetle ): order Dictyoptera . See also German cockroach mantis
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Origin of cockroach1
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Example Sentences
She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.
It was also full of s--t, a coach scrambling like a cockroach.
Cockroach begins with a failed suicide attempt by the protagonist.
It has been, for Dobbs, a Kafka-like metamorphosis from WASPy establishmentarian to angry-populist cockroach.
Some who would face a mad bull coolly enough spring with disgust from a cockroach or a centipede.
The earthworm, the cockroach, and the bed-bug are regarded as peculiarly disgusting, and all have a particularly offensive odour.
Captain Downs bestowed on Mayo about the same attention he would have allowed to a galley cockroach.
Alluding to the fact that the cockroach likes to eat other roaches, he said why not breed a roach that wouldn't eat anything else?
But when England began trading with the Orient, the cockroach grew venturesome, and began putting to sea as a stowaway.
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