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buggered about

buggered about is the simple past and past participle of bugger about.

Meaning of bugger about

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To waste time; to spend time on trivial tasks.

Questions about buggered about

What is buggered about the simple past and past participle of?
Buggered about is the simple past and past participle of bugger about.

Words near buggered about in the dictionary

  1. bugger up
  2. bugger's grip
  3. bugger's grips
  4. buggeration
  5. buggered
  6. buggered about
  7. buggered around
  8. buggered off
  9. buggered up
  10. buggeree
  11. buggerees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buggered about (page history and authors); bugger about (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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