bugger
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Turkic *bulga-der.
Proto-Turkic *bulgar
Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹ul¹ǧa)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ)
Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)der.
Medieval Latin Bulgarusder.
Old French bogrebor.
Middle English bougre
English bugger
From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.
Inflected forms:
form: buggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buggers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buggering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buggered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buggered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heretic.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
gloss: A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Hawaii
derogatory
slang
examples: He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
My computer's being a bit of a bugger.
1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,
“I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.
Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ’im now, George. The bugger’s dead.”
gloss: A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Hawaii
slang
examples: So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger.
gloss: Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Hawaii
slang
examples: How are you, you old bugger?
1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341,
Good luck, you old bugger!
1953 February-March, Henry Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire, Null-ABC, in Astounding Science Fiction, Gutenberg eBook #18346,
“And if Pelton found out that his kids are Literates—Woooo!” Cardon grimaced. “Or what we've been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous old bugger.”
gloss: A damn, anything at all.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
gloss: Someone who is very fond of something
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
slang
examples: I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
gloss: A whippersnapper, a tyke.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
slang
examples: What is that little bugger up to now?
gloss: To have anal sex with, sodomize.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
transitive
vulgar
examples: To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)
gloss: To break or ruin.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
gloss: Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: Bugger Bognor. (Alleged to be the last words of King George V of the United Kingdom in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.)
Oh, bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.
gloss: An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
pos: intj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: Bugger, I've missed the bus.
Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to, ah, say in this magnificent place of worship. Bugger. Bugger! Bugger-bugger-bugger-bugger!
Derived words: buggeration
buggeree
buggeress
bugger factor
buggersome
Edinbugger
embugger
give a bugger
play silly buggers
rugger bugger
sandbugger
bugger about
bugger all
bugger around
buggerer
bugger me
bugger me backwards
bugger off
bugger that for a joke
bugger up
buggery
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