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buggersome

buggersome adjective: characteristic or typical of a bugger; characterised or marked by buggery.

Adjective

buggersome (comparative more buggersome, superlative most buggersome)

  1. Characteristic or typical of a bugger; characterised or marked by buggery.
    • "[...] The gay Afghan is a buggersome man!" [...]1963, D. A. Kinsley, Allen Edwardes, Death rides a camel
    • That Reeda had noticed Riley's nose, and that Riley had commented upon his mother's ankles did not pass Cy by without first clipping him like a buggersome fingernail on the back of an earlobe.2010, Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo

Forms of buggersome

comparativemore buggersome
superlativemost buggersome

Origin of buggersome

From bugger + -some.

Questions about buggersome

What does buggersome mean?
Buggersome means characteristic or typical of a bugger; characterised or marked by buggery.
What part of speech is buggersome?
Buggersome is an adjective.

Words near buggersome in the dictionary

  1. buggers
  2. buggers about
  3. buggers around
  4. buggers off
  5. buggers up
  6. buggersome
  7. buggery
  8. Buggese
  9. Buggess
  10. Buggesses
  11. buggey

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