Green’s Dictionary of Slang

infested with any sort of bug: lice, bedbugs, etc.

1820		‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘The Fields of Tothill’ in Fancy 63: For his two rooms are naked, dun and muggy, / And somewhat tatter’d, and exceeding buggy!
1848		J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 92: This all-fiered [sic] buggy hole.
1864		‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 55: The ‘Commercial Hotel’ of Nashville is the filthiest, buggiest house [...] I ever passed a night in.
1898		F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 75: I told him the bed had become ‘a little buggy’.
1918		C. Sherwood diary 22 Oct. 🌐 Hope we get a bath soon or we’ll be pretty buggy.
1927		(con. 1914–18) L. Nason Three Lights from a Match 246: Captain, I ain’t buggy like them fellers. Lice I never had.
1936		‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 225: Gordon waved a foot at the buggy ceiling.
1939		Woody Guthrie in ed. Alan Lomax Folk Songs of North America (1960) 428: It’s been sung in every buggy, lousy jail from New Jersey to Portland.
1945		E. Rutherford 11 July diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 58: I have never been inside this cinema; it is centrally situated, but looks drab and buggy.
1958		D. Reeve Smoke in the Lanes 143: It is a wretched [...] and thoroughly uncomfortable experience to have the misfortune to acquire a ‘buggy’ wagon.
1967		N. Dunn Poor Cow 15: I’m fed up with buggy places.
1976		(ref. to 1930s) R. Barnes Coronation Cups and Jam Jars 58: A real buggy house would have them in the armchairs, in the bed and the curtains too.
1992		R. Price Clockers 192: The couch so motherfuckin’ buggy it up and walked across the room.
1997		L. Pettiway Workin’ It 135: I get a buggy feeling, like shit, things crawling on me.