• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈbʌɡə/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈbʌɡəɹ/

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• Rhymes:-ʌɡə(ɹ)

FromMiddle Englishbougre(“heretic”), fromOld Frenchbougre, fromMedieval LatinBulgarus(“Bulgar”), fromOld Church Slavonicблъгаринъ(blŭgarinŭ,“Bulgarian”), used in designation ofheretics (especially theBogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in theFirst Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed.Doublet ofBulgar.

bugger (pluralbuggers)

1. (obsolete) Aheretic.
2. (UKlaw) Someone who commitsbuggery; asodomite.

   The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is abuggers’ charter.

3. (slang,derogatory,Commonwealth,Hawaii) Afoolish or worthless person or thing; adespicable person.

   He's a sillybugger for losing his keys.

   Thebugger’s given me the wrong change.

   My computer's being a bit of abugger.

   • 1928, Frank Parker Day,Rockbound,Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,

     “I’ll take it out on dat youngbugger,” he thought viciously.

   • 1947, James Hilton,So Well Remembered,Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600371h:

     Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ’im now, George. Thebugger’s dead.”

4. (slang,Commonwealth,Hawaii) A situation that isaggravating or causesdismay; apain.

   So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of abugger.

5. (slang,Commonwealth,Hawaii) Someone viewed with affection; achap.

   How are you, you oldbugger?

   • 1946, Olaf Stapledon,Arms Out of Hand, inCollected Stories,Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341,

     Good luck, you oldbugger!

   • 1953 February-March,Henry Beam Piper,John Joseph McGuire,Null-ABC, inAstounding Science Fiction,Gutenberg eBook #18346,

     “And if Pelton found out that his kids are Literates—Woooo!” Cardon grimaced. “Or what we've been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous oldbugger.”

6. (slang,dated) Adamn, anything at all.

   I don't give abugger how important you think it is.

7. (slang,Commonwealth) Someone who is very fond of something

   I'm abugger for Welsh cakes.

8. (slang,UK,US) Awhippersnapper, atyke.

   What is that littlebugger up to now?

• (sodomite):SeeThesaurus:male homosexualandThesaurus:fudge packer

bugger (third-person singular simple presentbuggers,present participlebuggering,simple past and past participlebuggered)

1. (transitive,vulgar,Commonwealth) To have anal sex with,sodomize.

   To bebuggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s eraBig Rock Candy Mountain)

2. (transitive,slang,vulgarCommonwealth) Tobreak orruin.

   This computer isbuggered! Oh no! I'vebuggered it up.

3. (transitive,slang,vulgar,Commonwealth)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.)

   Oh,bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.

bugger

1. (slang,British,Ireland,Commonwealth,vulgar) An expression ofannoyance or displeasure.

   Bugger, I've missed the bus.

   • 1994,Richard Curtis,Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Charles (Hugh Grant):

     Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to, ah, say in this magnificent place of worship.Bugger.Bugger!Bugger-bugger-bugger-bugger!

• bummer
• damn
• rats
• whoops

• See alsoThesaurus:dammit

• The Origins and Common Usage of British swear-words

Frombug(noun) +‎-er.

bugger (pluralbuggers)

1. One who sets abug(surveillance device); one who bugs.

• buggee

• beuguer,buguer,boguer

Frombug +‎-er.

• IPA^(key):/bœ.ɡe/

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bugger

1. (computing, alsofigurative) tomalfunction, toglitch
   • 2021 April 15, Benjamin Bourgois, quotee, “Benjamin Bourgois: "On a été autorisés à s'embrasser"”, inLa Provence,→ISSN, page32:

     Quand je l’ai vue arriver, cela s’est passé comme dans la série, j’aibuggé. Elle était déjà trés jolie.

     When I saw her arrive, it happened like in the series: Iglitched. She was already very pretty.

This is a regular-er verb, but the stem is writtenbugge- before endings that begin with-a- or-o- (to indicate that the-g- is a "soft"/ʒ/ and not a "hard"/ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in-ger, such asneiger andmanger.