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buggering

buggering is the present participle and gerund of bugger.

Meaning of bugger

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.)

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Noun

buggering (plural buggerings)

  1. An act of buggery.
    • I have just narrowly avoided having a buggering.1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I
    • […] you look at the videos you brought down from the bedroom. Some feature the gang-buggerings of children; mostly male and mostly Asian or South American. Others show women being mounted by donkeys and other animals, in what looks like a prison.1993, Iain Banks, Complicity

Forms of buggering

pluralbuggerings

Phrases with buggering

Questions about buggering

What does buggering mean?
Buggering means an act of buggery.
What is buggering the present participle and gerund of?
Buggering is the present participle and gerund of bugger.
What part of speech is buggering?
Buggering is a noun.
What is the plural of buggering?
The plural of buggering is buggerings.

Words near buggering in the dictionary

  1. buggerers
  2. buggeress
  3. buggeresses
  4. buggeries
  5. buggerin'
  6. buggering
  7. buggering about
  8. buggering around
  9. buggering off
  10. buggering up
  11. buggerings

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