bugger

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Synonyms: ugger, mugger, lugger, bogger, burger, bigger, bulger, hugger, pugger, fugger, bagger

Antonyms: ugger, mugger, lugger, bogger, burger, bigger, bulger, hugger, pugger, fugger, bagger

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Noun

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?
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?

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.

Interjection

1. An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
   • Bugger, I've missed the bus.

Noun

1. One who sets a bug ; one who bugs.

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