cockroach
Noun
Meaning
An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
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Examples
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.
In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case.
When cockroach get in a trouble, him well glad fe fun go hide a fowl-house.
Cockroach neber so drunk him walk a fowl yard.