buggery
Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.
Adverb
- Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.
- Did he help? Did he buggery!
Origin
Etymology tree English bugger English y English buggery From bugger + y (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Interjection
- Synonym of bugger.
Synonyms: bugger
Noun
- Anal sex.
- Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery […] shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than ten years. - 1861, United Kingdom,...
- Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia.
- Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term...
- A broken or damaged condition.
- It's gone to buggery.
Origin
From bugger + -y (nominal suffix).