How to use bugger in a sentence
33 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection
Bugger means a heretic. Example: “The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.”
Examples of bugger by meaning
nounSomeone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
nounA situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger.
nounSomeone viewed with affection; a chap.
- How are you, you old bugger?
nounA damn, anything at all.
- I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
nounSomeone who is very fond of something.
- I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
nounA whippersnapper, a tyke.
- What is that little bugger up to now?
More sentences with bugger
- It's well and truly buggered now; you may as well throw it out.From the entry buggered
- You'll have to take over from here, mate, I'm completely buggered.From the entry buggered
- I've buggered up the sudoku somehow and can't finish it.From the entry bugger up
- So Sunak will try to muddle through, adopting Winston Churchill’s wartime mantra “KBO” (keep buggering on).2022 November 30, Andrew Grice, “Rishi Sunak is trying to govern the ungovernable”, in The Independent. From the entry KBO
- “You lucky bugger,” he valedicted, “I wish I could get away from this dump for a year.”2018, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang. From the entry valedict
- Well, he only buggers up one sentence, and that's the first one.2016 March 15, David Dale, “John Jarratt talks new show Territory Cops and a murderous return in Wolf Creek”, in The Sydney Morning Herald. From the entry bugger up
- “Go goot goona bugger dat feller,” he observed, referring to Ed Smith.2010, Jim Nicolson, Long Creek, iUniverse, page 98. From the entry goona
- How do I know you're not buggering your cheflings in the larder?”2008, Rikki Ducornet, Tom Motley, The One Marvelous Thing - Page 83. From the entry chefling
- Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered?2007, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull: Stories, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry fug
- We flushed a few more drunken buggers out for locking up, but no Black Bob.2004, Jan Needle, The spithead nymph, page 139. From the entry may've
- "Look," he said, "it's just fate playing silly buggers with you.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 95. From the entry play silly buggers
- Taxis have become an absolute bugger, if you’ll pardon the français.1968, Frederic Raphael, Orchestra & Beginners, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 390. From the entry pardon my français
- Be quiet I say all you buggers, naansense I say!” shouted the teacher, eliciting more of the laughter.2021 June 21, Abhishek Talwar, Chronicles of a Wanderer: Adesh Dhamija’s search for himself, Notion Press, →ISBN. From the entry naansense
- After all these years, the bugger still had the same kwai lan air he had even when he was fifteen.2013 September 3, The Marijuana Chronicles, Singapore. From the entry guai lan
- Now he knows not to bugger us about.”2011, Derek Robinson, Hullo Russia, Goodbye England. From the entry stop someone's clock
- If the bugger tries to get back into the Corners he may end up with a buttful of Durfee birdshot.2010, Don Gutteridge, Turncoat. From the entry buttful
- Bugger off, she felt like shouting as a particularly cheesy version of ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ blared out.2009, Julia Williams, “Prologue”, in Last Christmas, London: Avon, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry Christmas
- Bugger, this wasn't the goods at all – this was a pinch and a punch for the first of the month.2007, Anne Barry, Playing with Fire, page 59. From the entry pinch and a punch for the first of the month
- I'm buggered if I'm going to forswink myself."2004, Mat Coward, Over and Under: A Don Packham and Frank Mitchell Mystery, page 116. From the entry forswink
- I have just narrowly avoided having a buggering.1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I. From the entry buggering
- O’ corst the bugger ends up gettin’ stoatious and he falls asleep by the side on the grave.1987, Sara Fraser, Tildy: Nursing Woman, Futura, →ISBN, page 235. From the entry stoatious
- Just like her stinking rotten father and mother — a bugger and a buggeress — a buggeroo and a buggerette!1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come!. From the entry buggeress
- Yours is JavaScript.” “Oh, bugger, I've been telling people I'm a Hufflepuff.” “Not all quizlets end in Harry Potter houses, alright?” “Well, they should.”2024 August 12, May Darmon, “The Sci-Fi Rollerblades” (1:36 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Terry…. From the entry quizlet
- 'He said, "I won't bugger you"?2011, Mil Millington ·, Love and Other Near Death Experiences. From the entry unprovoked
- Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.2004, Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings, page 97. From the entry bewdy
- I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business.2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks), page 33. From the entry cinch
- I could tell in advance if they were screamers, or leatherettes, or buggers, or great head-givers, or into toys and ticklers – I had it down to an art.2005, Tom Horn, chapter 2, in The Devil and George Bailey, [s.l.]: RSE, published 2011, →ISBN, part III (Fire), page 827. From the entry leatherette
Meaning of bugger
- noun A heretic.
- noun Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- noun A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
Questions about bugger in a sentence
- How do you use bugger in a sentence?
- Bugger is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.”
- What is a short sentence with bugger?
- “'He said, "I won't bugger you"?”
- What does bugger mean?
- Bugger means a heretic.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bugger (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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