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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUG'GER, n. One guilty of the crime against nature. A vile wretch; a term of reproach.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) [syn: sodomite, sodomist, sod, bugger] v
1: practice anal sex upon [syn: sodomize, sodomise, bugger]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English bougre heretic, from Anglo-French bugre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus, literally, Bulgarian; from the association of Bulgaria with the Bogomils, who were accused of sodomy Date: 1555 1. sodomite 2. a. a worthless person ; rascal b. fellow, chap 3. a small or annoying thing <put down my keys and now I can't find the buggers> II. transitive verb Date: 1598 1. usually vulgar to commit sodomy with 2. damn 3. to put into disorder ; bungle, botch — often used with up III. noun Date: 1955 a person who plants electronic bugs

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n., v., & int. coarse sl. (except in sense 2 of n. and 3 of v.) Usage: Usually considered a taboo word. --n. 1 a an unpleasant or awkward person or thing (the bugger won't fit). b a person of a specified kind (he's a miserable bugger; you clever bugger!). 2 a person who commits buggery. --v.tr. 1 as an exclamation of annoyance (bugger the thing!). 2 (often foll. by up) Brit. a ruin; spoil (really buggered it up; no good, its buggered). b exhaust, tire out. 3 commit buggery with. --int. expressing annoyance. Phrases and idioms: bugger about (or around) (often foll. by with) 1 mess about. 2 mislead; persecute. bugger-all nothing. bugger off (often in imper.) go away. Etymology: ME f. MDu. f. OF bougre, orig. 'heretic' f. med.L Bulgarus Bulgarian (member of the Greek Church)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bugger Bug"ger, n. [F. bougre, fr. LL. Bulgarus, a Bulgarian, and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were infected with heresy. Those guilty of the crime of buggery were called heretics, because in the eyes of their adversaries there was nothing more heinous than heresy, and it was therefore thought that the origin of such a vice could only be owing to heretics.] 1. One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite. 2. A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(buggers, buggering, buggered) 1. Some people use bugger to describe a person who has done something annoying or stupid. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL, RUDE) N-COUNT: oft adj N [disapproval] 2. Some people say that a job or task is a bugger when it is difficult to do. (BRIT INFORMAL, RUDE) N-SING: a N 3. Some people use bugger in expressions such as bugger him or bugger the cost in order to emphasize that they do not care about the person or thing that the word or phrase refers to. (BRIT INFORMAL, RUDE) = sod VERB: only imper, V n [feelings] 4. To bugger someone means to have anal intercourse with them. VERB 5. Some people say bugger it or bugger when they are angry that something has gone wrong. (BRIT INFORMAL, RUDE) EXCLAM [feelings]

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A blackguard, a rascal, a term of reproach. Mill the bloody bugger; beat the damned rascal.

Moby Thesaurus

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