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bugger off

bugger off interjection: go away.

Interjection

(idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, emphatic, colloquial)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic) Go away.
    Synonyms:
    get lost
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic) An expression of disagreement or disbelief.
    • Bugger off! You're joking, aren't you?
    Synonyms:
    bollocks

Verb

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

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic) To leave, go away, disappear.
    • We tried to catch him, but he had already buggered off.

bugger off meaning in Bengali

bugger off in Bengali

বিদায় হও, চলে যাওয়া, বিদায় হওয়া, অদৃশ্য হওয়া

Synonyms of bugger off

All synonyms of bugger off

Forms of bugger off

third-person singular presentbuggers off
present participlebuggering off
past participlebuggered off
pastbuggered off

Origin of bugger off

Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “man”, especially in the colloquialism (idiomatic, dismissal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) old bugger for “an old man”.

Questions about bugger off

What does bugger off mean?
Bugger off means go away.
What is bugger off in Bengali?
Bugger off in Bengali is বিদায় হও, চলে যাওয়া, বিদায় হওয়া. See Bugger off meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is bugger off?
Bugger off can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near bugger off in the dictionary

  1. bugger around
  2. bugger factor
  3. bugger factors
  4. bugger me
  5. bugger me backwards
  6. bugger off
  7. bugger up
  8. bugger's grip
  9. bugger's grips
  10. buggeration
  11. buggered

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