bugger — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A heretic.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

2. Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

   Usage

   • UK usage

   Examples

   The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.

3. A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Hawaii
   • Derogatory
   • Slang

   Examples

   He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.

   The bugger’s given me the wrong change.

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   My computer's being a bit of a bugger.

   1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h, “I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.

   Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ’im now, George. The bugger’s dead.”

4. A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Hawaii
   • Slang

   Examples

   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.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Hawaii
   • Slang

   Examples

   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!

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   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 been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous old bugger.”

6. A damn, anything at all.

   Usage

   • Dated
   • Slang

   Examples

   I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.

7. Someone who is very fond of something

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Slang

   Examples

   I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.

8. A whippersnapper, a tyke.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • US usage
   • Slang

   Examples

   What is that little bugger up to now?

Verb

1. To have anal sex with, sodomize.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Transitive
   • Vulgar

   Examples

   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.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Slang
   • Transitive
   • Vulgar

   Examples

   This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.

3. Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Slang
   • Transitive
   • Vulgar

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

Interjection

1. An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Ireland
   • UK usage
   • Slang
   • Transitive
   • Vulgar

   Synonyms

   bummerdamnratswhoops

   Examples

   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!

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Transitive
   • Vulgar

   Related words

   buggee

Noun

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

   Synonyms

   sodomitesodomistsod

   Broader terms

   pervertdeviantdeviatedegeneratepervperve

Verb

1. practice anal sex upon

   Synonyms

   sodomizesodomise

   Broader terms

   copulatematepaircouple