BUGGER

sodomite, sodomist, sod, bugger

(noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)

sodomize, sodomise, bugger

(verb) practice anal sex upon

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

bugger (plural buggers)

(obsolete) A heretic.

(British legal) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

(slang, pejorative, UK, Australian, NZ) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.

(slang, UK, Australian, NZ) A situation that causes dismay.

(slang, UK, Australian, NZ) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.

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

(slang, British) Someone who is very fond of something

(slang, USA) A whippersnapper, a tyke.

Synonyms

• (sodomite): See male homosexual and fudge packer

Verb

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

(vulgar, British) To have anal sex with, sodomize.

(slang, coarse in British) To break or ruin.

(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To be surprised.

(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To feel contempt for some person or thing.

(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.

(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To be fatigued.

Interjection

bugger

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

Synonyms

• bummer

• damn

• whoops

• See also dammit

Etymology 2

Noun

bugger (plural buggers)

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

Source: Wiktionary


Bug"ger, n. Etym: [F. bougre, fr. LL. Bulgarus, a Bulgarian, and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were infected with heresy. Those guilty of the crime of buggery were called heretics, because in the eyes of their adversaries there was nothing more heinous than heresy, and it was therefore thought that the origin of such a vice could only be owing to heretics.]

1. One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

2. A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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