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buggered up

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

Meaning of bugger up

Verb

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

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, informal) To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
    • I've buggered up the sudoku somehow and can't finish it.
    Synonyms:
    booger up
  2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, informal) To injure or harm (someone).

Questions about buggered up

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

Words near buggered up in the dictionary

  1. buggeration
  2. buggered
  3. buggered about
  4. buggered around
  5. buggered off
  6. buggered up
  7. buggeree
  8. buggerees
  9. buggerer
  10. buggerers
  11. buggeress

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