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crazy as a bedbug. That great Yankee homespun humorist Seba Smith (1792–1868) may have coined crazy as a bedbug in the series of letters by “Major Jack Downing” that he published in his newspaper, The Portland Courier, in 1832: “Nabby ran about from house to house like a crazy bedbug.” Crazy as a bed- bug means completely crazy. It may be that bedbugs scoot about crazily at times, or that their victims jump out of bed and run around crazily when bitten by them. The word bedbug, inciden- tally, is also an American invention. |