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bugger

Phonetics

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/ˈbʌɡə/

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/ˈbʌɡɚ/

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noun

  • A heretic.

  • Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

    Example: The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers′ charter.
  • A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.

    Example: He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
  • A situation that causes dismay.

    Example: 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.
  • Someone viewed with affection; a chap.

    Example: How are you, you old bugger?
  • A damn, anything at all.

    Example: I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
  • Someone who is very fond of something

    Example: I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
  • A whippersnapper, a tyke.

    Example: What is that little bugger up to now?

verb

  • To have anal sex with, sodomize.

  • To break or ruin.

    Example: This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
  • To be surprised.

    Example: Bugger me sideways!
  • To feel contempt for some person or thing.

    Example: 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.)
  • To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.

    Example: Bugger this for a game of soldiers.
  • To be fatigued.

    Example: I'm buggered from all that walking.

interjection

  • An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

    Example: Bugger, I've missed the bus.

bugger

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noun

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