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bugalugs

bugalugs is the alternative form of buggerlugs.

Meaning of buggerlugs

Noun

buggerlugs (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) A term of address that can be rude or affectionate.
    • Also, “How's it goin', bugalugs.” And, “Take a shufti at the Brit kid, mate.”2008 November 6, Allan Cole, Lucky in Cyprus: A True Story about a Teacher, a Boy, an Earthquake, Some Terrorists, and the CIA, Allan Cole, →ISBN, page 274

Origin of bugalugs

Likely bowdlerisation removing the offensive term bugger.

Questions about bugalugs

What is bugalugs the alternative form of?
Bugalugs is the alternative form of buggerlugs.

Words near bugalugs in the dictionary

  1. Bugallon-Posadas Street
  2. bugaloo
  3. bugalooed
  4. bugalooing
  5. bugaloos
  6. bugalugs
  7. bugan
  8. Buganda
  9. Bugandan
  10. Bugandans
  11. bugans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bugalugs (page history and authors); buggerlugs (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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