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buggering up

buggering up is the present participle and gerund 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 buggering up

What is buggering up the present participle and gerund of?
Buggering up is the present participle and gerund of bugger up.

Words near buggering up in the dictionary

  1. buggerin'
  2. buggering
  3. buggering about
  4. buggering around
  5. buggering off
  6. buggering up
  7. buggerings
  8. buggerise about
  9. buggerlugs
  10. buggerman
  11. buggermen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buggering 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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