Bugger
Definitions
- A heretic.
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
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Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite. UK
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A damn, anything at all.
- Someone who is very fond of something
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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?”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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