Meaning of Bugger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A heretic.
   obsolete
2. One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
   Commonwealth, transitive, vulgar
3. Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
   UK
4. A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
   Commonwealth, Hawaii, derogatory, slang
5. A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
   Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang
6. Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
   Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang
7. A damn, anything at all.
   dated, slang
8. Someone who is very fond of something
   Commonwealth, slang
9. A whippersnapper, a tyke.
   UK, US, slang

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.””

“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.”

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

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

“I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.”

“What is that little bugger up to now?”

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