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buggy

/ˈbʌ.ɡi/

buggy noun: a small horse-drawn cart.

buggy: a small horse-drawn cart
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Noun

buggy (plural buggies)

  1. A small horse-drawn cart.
    • I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
    • I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times
  3. A hearse.
    • 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
      Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
  4. (Pennsylvania, UK, Western) A pushchair; a stroller.
    • The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12
    Synonyms:
    stroller
  5. (Canada, Pennsylvania, Southern US, Western) A shopping cart or trolley.

Adjective

buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)

  1. Infested with insects.
  2. Containing programming errors.
    • This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
  3. Resembling an insect.
  4. (slang) Crazy; bughouse.
    • You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, page 106
    • Posting the selfies on Instagram, where limbs are noodly or eyes are buggy, is meant to be silly, making it seem like the photographers take themselves — and social media — less seriously.2022 July 3, Kalley Huang, “The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2025

buggy meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

buggy in Hindi

a buggy, carriage
बग्घी bagghī

buggy in Marathi

बग्गी, बगडी

buggy in Urdu

بگی, بگڈی

buggy in Telugu

బగ్గీ, బగ్గి
More languagesFewer languages
buggy in Malayalam
ബഗ്ഗി
buggy in Kannada
ಬಗ್ಗಿ
buggy in Punjabi
ਬੱਗੀ
buggy in Gujarati
બગ્ગી
buggy in Odia
ବଗ୍ଗି
buggy in Nepali
बग्गी, बगडी

Examples of buggy in a sentence

  • The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
  • That new box is like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still the same buggy program inside.
  • The making of buggy whips is the proverbial exemplar of a business without sustainability in the face of technological change.

All 33 example sentences with buggy

Synonyms of buggy

Forms of buggy

Noun
pluralbuggies
Adjective
comparativebuggier
superlativebuggiest

Plural of buggy: buggies

Origin of buggy

Origin unknown.

From bug + -y.

Words formed from buggy

Phrases with buggy

Words that rhyme with buggy

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about buggy

What does buggy mean?
Buggy means a small horse-drawn cart.
What is buggy in Hindi?
Buggy in Hindi is बग्घी (bagghī). See Buggy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is buggy?
Buggy can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce buggy?
Buggy is pronounced /ˈbʌ.ɡi/ (UK).
What is the plural of buggy?
The plural of buggy is buggies.

Words near buggy in the dictionary

  1. buggings
  2. Buggins
  3. Buggins's turn
  4. buggish
  5. Buggs
  6. buggy
  7. buggy whip
  8. buggy whips
  9. buggyman
  10. buggymen
  11. Bughea de Jos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: buggy (page history and authors); बग्घी (Hindi) (page history and authors); buggy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); buggy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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