bugger

Noun (1)

bugger (plural buggers)

1. (obsolete) A heretic.
2. (UK) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
   • The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
3. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, derogatory, slang) 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.
4. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang) 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. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
   • How are you, you old bugger?
   • Good luck, you old bugger!1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341
6. (dated, slang) A damn, anything at all.
   • I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
7. (Commonwealth, slang) Someone who is very fond of something
   • I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
8. (UK, US, slang) A whippersnapper, a tyke.
   • What is that little bugger up to now?

Verb

bugger (third-person singular simple present buggers, present participle buggering, simple past and past participle buggered)

1. (Commonwealth, transitive, vulgar) 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. (Commonwealth, slang, transitive, vulgar) To break or ruin.
   • This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
3. (Commonwealth, slang, transitive, vulgar) 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. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, transitive, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
   • Bugger, I've missed the bus.
   • Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to, ah, say in this magnificent place of worship. Bugger. Bugger! Bugger-bugger-bugger-bugger!1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Charles (Hugh Grant)

   Synonyms:

   bummer, damn, rats, whoops

Noun (2)

bugger (plural buggers)

1. (Commonwealth, transitive, vulgar) One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.