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boggery

boggery is the misspelling of buggery.

Meaning of buggery

Noun

buggery (countable and uncountable, plural buggeries)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) 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, Offences Against the Person Act 1861
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) 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 not less than Ten Years.1861, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 61”, in Offences against the Person Act 1861^(Offences against the Person Act 1861), page 833
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) A broken or damaged condition.
    • It's gone to buggery.

See all 5 meanings of buggery

Origin of boggery

Possible obsolete corruption of "bog".

Questions about boggery

What is boggery the misspelling of?
Boggery is the misspelling of buggery.

Words near boggery in the dictionary

  1. bogged in
  2. bogged into
  3. bogged off
  4. bogger
  5. boggers
  6. boggery
  7. Boggess
  8. Boggesses
  9. boggest
  10. boggier
  11. boggiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boggery (page history and authors); buggery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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