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bugger

UK /ˈbʌɡə/US /ˈbʌɡəɹ/

noun 9
verb 3
exclamation 1
forms 3
phrases 3

noun9

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(slang, offensive) a person seen as stupid or of no value
- He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
- The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
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(Commonwealth, slang) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- How are you, you old bugger?
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(US, slang) A whippersnapper, a tyke.
- What is that little bugger up to now?
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(slang, vulgar) A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- 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.
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(slang, vulgar) A damn, anything at all.
- I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
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(Commonwealth, slang) Someone who is very fond of something
- I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
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(UK, offensive) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
(no longer used) A heretic.

verb3

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(Commonwealth, vulgar) 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)
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(slang, vulgar) To break or ruin.
- This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
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(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.)
- Oh, bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.

exclamation1

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(slang, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
- Bugger, I've missed the bus.

forms

buggered · buggering · buggers

Phrases with bugger

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