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Definitions and meaning of bugger

bugger

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɡə/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

bugger (plural buggers)

1. (obsolete) A heretic.
2. (UK law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

3. (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Commonwealth) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
   • 1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,

     “I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.
4. (slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Commonwealth) A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.

5. (slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Commonwealth) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
   • 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.”

6. (slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.

7. (slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth) Someone who is very fond of something

8. (slang, UK, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.

Synonyms

• (sodomite): See Thesaurus:male homosexual and Thesaurus:fudge packer

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Verb

bugger (third-person singular simple present buggers, present participle buggering, simple past and past participle buggered)

1. (transitive, vulgar, British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To have anal sex with, sodomize.

   To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)

2. (transitive, slang, vulgar in British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To break or ruin.

3. (transitive, slang, vulgar) Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.

   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.)

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Interjection

bugger

1. (slang, British, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

Synonyms

• bummer
• damn
• rats
• whoops

• See also Thesaurus:dammit

Translations

Further reading

• The Origins and Common Usage of British swear-words

Etymology 2

From bug (noun) +‎ -er.

Noun

bugger (plural buggers)

1. One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.

Related terms

• buggee

French

Alternative forms

• beuguer, buguer, boguer

Etymology

From bug +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœ.ɡe/

Verb

bugger

1. (computing, also figurative) to malfunction, to glitch

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written bugge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.