bugger

An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

Interjection

  1. An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
    • 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! - 1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Charles (Hugh...

Origin

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.

Synonyms

bummer damn rats whoops

Noun obsolete

  1. A heretic.
  2. Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
    • The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
  3. A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
    • 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
    • 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...
  6. A damn, anything at all.
    • I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
  7. Someone who is very fond of something
    • I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
  8. A whippersnapper, a tyke.
    • What is that little bugger up to now?

Forms

buggers

Synonyms

male homosexual and Thesaurus:fudge packer

Derived

buggeration buggeree buggeress bugger factor buggersome Edinbugger embugger give a bugger play silly buggers rugger bugger sandbugger

Noun Commonwealth, transitive

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

Origin

Etymology tree English bug Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bugger From bug (noun) + -er.

Forms

buggers

Related

buggee

Verb

  1. 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. To break or ruin.
    • This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
  3. 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.

Forms

buggers buggering buggered

Derived

bugger about bugger all bugger around buggerer bugger me bugger me backwards bugger off bugger that for a joke bugger up buggery