bugger
nomverbeinterjectionnomcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈbʌɡə//
- États-Unis//ˈbʌɡəɹ//
Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
nom
- 1
obsolèteA heretic.
- 2
Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
- 3
argotA foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
My computer's being a bit of a bugger.
1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h, “I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.
- 4
argotA 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.
- 5
argotSomeone viewed with affection; a chap.
How are you, you old bugger?
1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341, Good luck, you old bugger!
1953 February-March, Henry Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire, Null-ABC, in Astounding 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 old bugger.”
- 6
vieilliA damn, anything at all.
I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
- 7
argotSomeone who is very fond of something
I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
- 8
argotA whippersnapper, a tyke.
What is that little bugger up to now?
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Turkic *bulga-der. Proto-Turkic *bulgar Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹wl¹g¹a) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ) Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)der. Medieval Latin Bulgarusder. Old French bogrebor. Middle English bougre English bugger From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.
verbe
- 1
To have anal sex with, sodomize.
To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)
- 2
argotTo break or ruin.
This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
- 3
argotExpressing 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.
interjection
- 1
argotAn expression of annoyance or displeasure.
Bugger, I've missed the bus.
Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to, ah, say in this magnificent place of worship. Bugger. Bugger! Bugger-bugger-bugger-bugger!
nom
- 1
One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
Étymologie
Etymology tree English bug Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bugger From bug (noun) + -er.
Formes
- pluriel
- buggers
- passé
- buggered
- participe passé
- buggered
- participe présent
- buggering
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- buggers
bugger · Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
bugging · Electronic surveillance.buggy · A small horse-drawn cart.bugle · A horn used by hunters.